Synopses & Reviews
The concept of "subculture" has long been of significant importance in research on youth, style, deviance and popular culture. Although in more recent years subculture has been the subject of sustained critique, it still provides a valuable point of reference for study and research. This text offers students an up-to-date and wide-ranging account of new developments in youth culture research that reject, refine or reinvent the concept of subculture. Bringing together key theoretical statements with illuminating analyses of particular aspects of youth culture - popular music, clubbing, body modification, the internet, etc. - this is an ideal introduction to a diverse and wide-ranging field.
About the Author
Andy Bennett is Lecturer in Sociology, University of Surrey, UK
Table of Contents
Introduction--A.Bennett and K.Kahn-Harris *
Section 1: Theoretical Readings * Culture, Subculture and Social Organisation--P.J.Martin * Fragmented Culture and Subcultures--D.Chaney *
Section 2: Empirical Studies * 'It's Like Canada Reduced': Setting the Scene in Montreal--G.Stahl * Dance Nations: Rethinking Youth Subcultural Theory--B.Carrington and B.Wilson * Tourists and Travellers? 'Subcultures'. Reflexive Identities and Neo-Tribal Sociality--P.Sweetman * Teenage Girls' 'Bedroom Culture': Codes Versus Zones--S.Lincoln * Unspectacular Subculture?: Transgression and Mundanity in the Global Extreme Metal Scene--
K.Kahn-Harris * Youth Strategies for Glocal Living: Space, Power and Communication in Everyday Cultural Practice--H.Pilkington * The Goth Scene and (Sub)Cultural Substance--P.Hodkinson * Buffy Night at the Seven Stars: A 'Subcultural' Happening at the 'Glocal' Level--G.Bloustien * Virtual Subculture? Youth, Identity and the Internet--A.Bennett * Afterword--S.Frith * Bibliography * Index