Hip Glossary – Teeny Boppers

Teeny Boppers: During the 60s, teenagers too young to be hippies, had their own social group. Teeny boppers presented a new market for the media to conquer. They had their own music like the Partridge Family, The Cowsills, The Jackson 5, and The Monkees. Since big business couldn’t sell to the hippies, they targeted their commercialism at this new group. Older hippies used this term disparagingly to describe this younger generation.