media_magazines

January 2013

In his book Sex and Drugs before Rock 'n' Roll. Youth Culture and Masculinity during Holland’s Golden Age Roberts sheds light on one generation of young men who grew up in the affluent 1620s and 1630s – Rembrandt’s generation - and their fascination with fancy clothing, binge drinking, lust for stone-throwing, preoccupation with sex, and ‘drug issues’.

November 2012

Waarom trokken op 21 september duizenden jongeren naar Haren en sloegen ze de boel daar kort en klein? Wat is er aan de hand met de Nederlandse jeugd, vragen gezagsdragers en pedagogen zich vertwijfeld af. Volgens de Nederlands-Amerikaanse historicus Benjamin B. Roberts hebben de rellen in Haren te maken met sociale onvrede. Hij ziet parallellen met geweldsuitspattingen van adolescenten in de zeventiende-eeuwse Republiek. Hierover publiceerde Roberts onlangs het boek Sex and Drugs before Rock ’n Roll. Youth Culture and Masculinity during Holland’s Golden Age.

November 2012

In gesprek met historicus Benjamin Roberts (New Jersey, 1965) die een boek schreef over seks, drugs en rock-'n-roll in de jaren 20 en 30 van de Gouden Eeuw.

October 2012

"If you have to wear out a pair of fool's shoes in order to become wise" Jacob Cats proverb hardly seems a formula for a Golden Age, but as Benjamin B. Roberts convincingly argues the peace, prosperity, technology, colonalism of the 1620s and 1630s produced a generation of long-haired hangjongeren clad in brightly colored silks and satins whose anti-social behaviour was not simply tolerated but valued as a incipient maturity and successful socialisation and who were responsible for the Dutch Golden Age of the mid-17th century.

Subscribe to RSS - media_magazines