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Jonathan Lethem: IMG Stops: On Those Things My New Novel Forgot to Be About, Maybe

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For me, there's a weird, unfathomable gulf — I almost wrote gulp — between the completion of a novel and its publication. Some days this duration feels interminable, as though the book has... Continue »
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Subculture: The Meaning of Style (New Accents)

by Dick Hebdige

Subculture: The Meaning of Style (New Accents) Cover

ISBN13: 9780415039499
ISBN10: 0415039495
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Publisher Comments:

'Hebdige's Subculture: The Meaning of Style is so important: complex and remarkably lucid, it's the first book dealing with punk to offer intellectual content. Hebdige ...] is concerned with the UK's postwar, music-centred, white working-class subcultures, from teddy boys to mods and rockers to skinheads and punks.' - Rolling Stone

With enviable precision and wit Hebdige has addressed himself to a complex topic - the meanings behind the fashionable exteriors of working-class youth subcultures - approaching them with a sophisticated theoretical apparatus that combines semiotics, the sociology of devience and Marxism and come up with a very stimulating short book - Time Out

This book is an attempt to subject the various youth-protest movements of Britain in the last 15 years to the sort of Marxist, structuralist, semiotic analytical techniques propagated by, above all, Roland Barthes. The book is recommended whole-heartedly to anyone who would like fresh ideas about some of the most stimulating music of the rock era - The New York Times

Synopsis:

Complex and remarkably lucid, it's the first book dealing with punk to offer intellectual content. Hebdige is concerned with the UK's postwar, music-centred, white working-class subcultures, from teddy boys to mods and rockers to skinheads and punks.' -"Rolling""Stone"

Synopsis:

Complex and remarkably lucid, it's the first book dealing with punk to offer intellectual content. Hebdige is concerned with the UK's postwar, music-centred, white working-class subcultures, from teddy boys to mods and rockers to skinheads and punks.' - "Rolling" "Stone"

Description:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [169]-186) and index.
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ISBN:
9780415039499
Subtitle:
The Meaning of Style
Author:
Hebdige, D.
Author:
Hebdige, D.
Author:
Hebdige, Dick
Publisher:
Routledge
Location:
London ;
Subject:
Anthropology - Cultural
Subject:
Sociology
Subject:
Youth
Subject:
Subculture
Subject:
Subculture -- Great Britain.
Subject:
Youth -- Great Britain.
Edition Description:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Series:
New Accents
Series Volume:
TM 5-4120-355-24P
Publication Date:
March 1981
Binding:
Paperback
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Yes
Pages:
208
Dimensions:
7.40x4.98x.45 in. .44 lbs.
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