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American Hysteria

W!ZARD Studios

Society & Culture

4.4 • 3.1K Ratings

🗓️ 14 February 2022

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

To prepare for our series called Fangirls and Boy Bands, we are heading back to the fantastical realm of the teenager and the reactionary moral panics their sex lives have inspired since the days of the Puritans. In this episode, pay special attention to the invention of the teenager in the 1920s and 40s as well as the way the small revolutions that music and dance were able to incite, and then come back next week when we will break down the archetype of hysterical fangirl and see how these seas of swooners were seen as both ridiculous and extremely dangerous to the very fabric of America. Head to greenchef.com/hysteria130 and use code hysteria130 Become a Patron and support our show! Follow American Hysteria on social media: Twitter: @AmerHysteria Instagram: @AmericanHysteriaPodcast Find our merch at americanhysteria.com American Hysteria is written, produced, and hosted by Chelsey Weber-Smith Sound design by Clear Commo Studios Research and co-writing by Riley Smith Co-produced and edited by Miranda Zickler Voice Acting by Will Rogers and by Lily Orrey Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:29.9	Hey everybody, on this Valentine's Day and in preparation for our upcoming series called
0:38.3	Fan Girls and Boy Bands, we have for you this ridiculous romp through the fearful fever
0:45.5	dreams of shrill, stuffy adults who've long believed that each generation of teenagers
0:52.8	is living in their own version of euphoria or the 2003 movie 13. You know, a bunch of
1:00.8	sex maniacs, always on the verge of sensational death. This re-release will take you back
1:08.5	through the moral panics over these secret sex lives of teenagers, starting all the way
1:14.4	back at the Puritans with their strange dating rules, rituals, and contraptions. Then we'll
1:22.9	head through the major freak-outs over jazz dances like the turkey trot and the camel
1:29.2	walk, and then we'll move through the stories of rainbow parties and sex bracelets that came
1:35.5	in the wake of the Clinton Lewinsky scandal.
1:39.6	Our new episodes, Fan Girls and Boy Bands are going to land us back into this historical,
1:46.2	fantastical realm of the mythic teenager, a liminal space that's always terrified the
1:53.5	aging generations, one full of raging hormones and chaotic emotions, and of course a seemingly
2:02.5	bloodthirsty passion.
2:05.5	In our series, we'll be focusing more specifically on the American Teenage Girl, an archetype
2:12.3	that's always been maligned, disregarded, and ruthlessly ridiculed. But as we'll see,
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