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Zoot Suit: The Enigmatic Career of an Extreme Style, , Peiss, Kathy, Good, 6/20/
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- ISBN
- 9780812243376
- EAN
- 9780812243376
- Publication Year
- 2011
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Subject Area
- Design, History, Social Science
- Publication Name
- Zoot Suit : the Enigmatic Career of an Extreme Style
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press
- Item Length
- 9 in
- Subject
- United States / 20th Century, Fashion & Accessories, Popular Culture
- Item Width
- 6 in
- Number of Pages
- 248 Pages
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ZOOT SUIT (n.): the ultimate in clothes. The only totally and truly American civilian suit. --Cab Calloway, The Hepster's Dictionary , 1944 Before the fashion statements of hippies, punks, or hip-hop, there was the zoot suit, a striking urban look of the World War II era that captivated the imagination. Created by poor African American men and obscure tailors, the "drape shape" was embraced by Mexican American pachucos, working-class youth, entertainers, and swing dancers, yet condemned by the U.S. government as wasteful and unpatriotic in a time of war. The fashion became notorious when it appeared to trigger violence and disorder in Los Angeles in 1943--events forever known as the "zoot suit riot." In its wake, social scientists, psychiatrists, journalists, and politicians all tried to explain the riddle of the zoot suit, transforming it into a multifaceted symbol: to some, a sign of social deviance and psychological disturbance, to others, a gesture of resistance against racial prejudice and discrimination. As controversy swirled at home, young men in other places--French zazous, South African tsotsi, Trinidadian saga boys, and Russian stiliagi--made the American zoot suit their own. In Zoot Suit , historian Kathy Peiss explores this extreme fashion and its mysterious career during World War II and after, as it spread from Harlem across the United States and around the world. She traces the unfolding history of this style and its importance to the youth who adopted it as their uniform, and at the same time considers the way public figures, experts, political activists, and historians have interpreted it. This outré style was a turning point in the way we understand the meaning of clothing as an expression of social conditions and power relations. Zoot Suit offers a new perspective on youth culture and the politics of style, tracing the seam between fashion and social action.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN-10
0812243374
ISBN-13
9780812243376
eBay Product ID (ePID)
99655935
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
248 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Zoot Suit : the Enigmatic Career of an Extreme Style
Publication Year
2011
Subject
United States / 20th Century, Fashion & Accessories, Popular Culture
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Design, History, Social Science
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
LCCN
2011-010284
Dewey Edition
22
Reviews
"Peiss is a creative and brilliant scholar and her book is a much-welcomed addition to the body of scholarship dedicated to unlocking the riddle of the zoot."-- American Historical Review, "An important and valuable book. The breadth of research upon which it is based and Peiss's determination to question conventional assumptions considerably enrich our understanding of the zoot."-- Journal of American Studies, "Kathy Peiss brilliantly unravels the many meanings of the zoot suit while sustaining the aesthetic pleasure of its creation in the complex cultural fabric of American life. Zoot Suit is a cultural history laced with the eye of ethnography, showing how an original African American sartorial style carried substantial symbolic power into the lives of Mexican American pachucos suaves , Jewish tailor trumpeters, and all who would wear 'the Drape' as a statement of hipness."-Nick Spitzer, producer and host of American Routes, "Refreshingly skeptical of the intellectual habit of reducing all cultural expression to the political."-- Wall Street Journal, " Zoot Suit is a sophisticated, independent minded, and valuable book; there should be more work like it in the field. Peiss's principled attention to evidence, her nuanced argument, and her willingness to question conventional assumptions about the meaning of popular forms all go a long way toward re-grounding American Studies in the lived world."--Carlo Rotella, author of Good With Their Hands: Boxers, Bluesmen, and Other Characters from the Rust Belt, "Kathy Peiss brilliantly unravels the many meanings of the zoot suit while sustaining the aesthetic pleasure of its creation in the complex cultural fabric of American life. Zoot Suit is a cultural history laced with the eye of ethnography, showing how an original African American sartorial style carried substantial symbolic power into the lives of Mexican American pachucos suaves , Jewish tailor trumpeters, and all who would wear 'the Drape' as a statement of hipness."--Nick Spitzer, producer and host of American Routes, " Zoot Suit is a sophisticated, independent minded, and valuable book; there should be more work like it in the field. Peiss's principled attention to evidence, her nuanced argument, and her willingness to question conventional assumptions about the meaning of popular forms all go a long way toward re-grounding American Studies in the lived world."-Carlo Rotella, author of Good With Their Hands: Boxers, Bluesmen, and Other Characters from the Rust Belt
Target Audience
College Audience
Illustrated
Yes
LeafCats
378
Dewey Decimal
391/.10973
Lc Classification Number
Gt525
Table of Content
Introduction 1 Making the Suit Zoot 2 Going to Extremes 3 Into the Public Eye 4 From Rags to Riot 5 Reading the Riddle 6 Zooting Around the World Aftermath Notes Index Acknowledgments
Copyright Date
2011
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