From the rear cover
What is the most polarizing and important youth movement since Hip-Hop?
Twee
What?!
Artisanal chocolate. Mustaches. Locally sourced vegetables. Etsy. Birds.
Flea markets. Cult films. Horn-rimmed glasses.
What do all of these icons have in common? They are signifiers that author Marc Spitz groups as falling under the umbrella of Twee, a powerful, expansive youth movement that has colored popular culture in surprising ways.
In the same way that Douglas Coupland branded Generation X with his groundbreaking novel, Spitz gives name to a sensibility that prizes kindness over irony, encourages obsessive fandom and collection culture, supports a hunger for purity of craft, and, most important, strives for the preservation of the innocence of childhood. As a result, Twee is divisive, and Spitz shows that there is a tribe of people who fiercely self-identify while others simply cringe.
Twee features exclusive interviews plus in-depth research on Twee touchstones past and present, including Walt Disney, James Dean, J. D. Salinger, Sylvia Plath, Dr. Seuss, Truman Capote, Maurice Sendak, Edward Gorey, Jean Seberg, the Kinks, Judy Blume, Nick Drake, Jonathan Richman, Beat Happening, the Smiths, They Might Be Giants, Nirvana, Belle and Sebastian, Wes Anderson, Pitchfork, This American Life, McSweeney's, mumblecore, Vampire Weekend, Sufjan Stevens, Miranda July, Tavi Gevinson, Lena Dunham, Portlandia, and Zooey Deschanel.
Expansive, engaging, and festooned with more than enough kittens, this is the first definitive history of Twee.
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- Title Twee
- Author Marc Spitz
- Binding Paperback
- Pages 352
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher It Books, Qg17a
- Date 2014-06-03
- Features Bibliography, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780062213044 / 0062213040
- Weight 0.6 lbs (0.27 kg)
- Dimensions 7 x 5.4 x 1 in (17.78 x 13.72 x 2.54 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Intergenerational relations, Popular culture - 21st century
- Dewey Decimal Code 306.1
Media reviews
Citations
- Booklist, 06/01/2014, Page 8
- Kirkus Reviews, 06/15/2014, Page 0
- Publishers Weekly, 11/03/2014, Page 0
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