THE TWENTYSOMETHING MYTH.

YOUTH; GENERATION X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture (Book); COUPLAND, Douglas, 1961-; UNITED States presidential elections; ROLE playing; TELEVISION programs; GENERATION gap

Discusses the youth culture in the U.S. Use of novelist Douglas Coupland's novel "Generation X" as primary source material to describe youth culture; Role played by the new generation in the victory of President Bill Clinton; Illustration of youth empowerment by Rock the Vote, a record company-sponsored organization with a nonpartisan mandate to make voting popular; Lack of authenticity of a real political movement to motivate youth in television programs; Popularity of Lollapalooza festival aimed to be a traveling road show of generational defiance.