Generation X Field Guide & Lexicon - Softcover

Wesson, Vann

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1887754059 ISBN 13: 9781887754057

Publisher: Orion Media, 1996

Synopsis

Here's the handbook America has been waiting for! A guide about the 79 million Americans known as Generation X. A quick read with entertainment on every page. Vann Wesson gathered a team of 25 Gen Xers to create a 900 word lexicon, 80 outrageous illustrations, and write articles on subjects from Extreme Sports to Ethnic Diversity. Generation X Field Guide & Lexicon offers a humorous and insightful look into some of the language, concerns, and activities of Generation X.

About this title

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SO WHAT'S IN A NAME? Origin of Generation X Nametag

GENERATION X - A 1960's English paperback about sex, drugs, and rock n' roll in the London mod scene.

GENERATION X - The 1970-1980s British band led by Billy Idol and Tony James, created from the breakup of their previous band, Chelsea. The name was taken from the paperback novel (see above). Generation X broke up in the early 80s. Billy Idol went on to a successful solo career with songs like "Your Generation," "Dancing with Myself," "White Wedding."

GENERATION X - The 1991 novel by Douglas Coupland, subtitled Tales for an Accelerated Culture, that depicts the lives of young Americans with few options beyond "low-pay, low-prestige, low-dignity, no-future McJobs." When asked how he thought up the name for this generation, Coupland replied, "I didn't come up with the name for a generation. I just came up with a title for a novel."

GENERATION X - 1990s target-market term that alerted the media and advertisers that there was a vast portion of the American populace that they were ignoring. Media and advertising now try their darndest to keep up with what's going on with this generation, although sometimes the best they can do is fill their commercials with actors in flannel shirts and have them drink lots of coffee.

GENERATION X - A handy term that cannot begin to describe the true diversity of a generation that is, still, resistant to being manipulated by media, advertising, and politicians. "Generation X" isn't about to sit still and let anyone on TV tell them who they are, what they thing, or what they should buy. Even so, it seems likely that this is the term history books will use to describe those of us born between 1961 and 1981.

Edition details

• Publisher: Orion Media
• Publication date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1887754059
• ISBN 13: 9781887754057
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 200