Bobby soxer (music)

Bobby soxer is a term for the wildly enthusiastic, teenage female fans of 1940s traditional pop music, in particular that of singer Frank Sinatra.[1] Bobby soxers were usually teenage girls in high schools and colleges, who got their name from the popular bobby socks that they wore.[2] As a teenager, actress Shirley Temple played a stereotypical bobby soxer in the film The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (1947).[3]

A drum majorette wearing bobby socks in Ann Arbor, Michigan, July 8, 1939

A bobby soxer was not the term for students, both male and female, who were required to remove hard-soled shoes in order to dance on the usual wooden gymnasium floors at a high school "sock hop".[4][5][6] Sock hops tended to take place in the rock 'n' roll era.

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References
  1. Green, Jonathan (2005). Cassell's Dictionary of Slang. Sterling Publishing Company. p. 145. ISBN 9780304366361.
  2. Sickels, Robert (2004). The 1940s (American Popular Culture Through History). ABC-CLIO. p. 36. ISBN 9780313312991. Retrieved 21 April 2019.
  3. Nash, Ilana (2005). American Sweethearts: Teenage Girls in Twentieth-century Popular Culture. Indiana University Press. p. 165. ISBN 978-0-253-21802-5. Retrieved 21 April 2019.
  4. Renzoni, Tony (2017). Connecticut Rock 'n' Roll: A History. ISBN 9781625858801.
  5. "Teen-Agers". Life. 1948-12-20. p. 67.
  6. "Journal of Health, Physical Education, Recreation". 1946.


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