Youth Culture and Social Change: Making a Difference by Making a Noise

Acknowledgements.- List of Figures.- List of Contributors.- Introduction; Subcultures Network.- Part 1: Riots.- Subcultures, Schools and Rituals: A Case Study of the Bristol 'Riots' (1980); Roger Ball.- The Language of the Unheard: Social Media and Riot Subculture/s; Louis Rice.- 'My Manor's Ill': How Underground Music Told the Real Story of the UK Riots; Sarah Attfield.- 'A Different Vibe and a Different Place': Re-telling the Riots; Roundtable (edited by Lucy Robinson and Pete Webb).- Part 2: Music.- '(Today I Met) The Boy I'm Gonna Marry': Romantic Expectations of Teenage Girls in the 1960s West Midlands; Ros Watkiss Singleton.- Agents of Change: Cultural Materialism, Post-Punk and the Politics of Popular Music; David Wilkinson.- How to Forget (and Remember) 'The Greatest Punk Rock Band in the World': Bad Brains, Hardcore Punk, and Black Popular Culture; Tara Marin Lopez and Michael Mills.- Part 3: Gangs.- 'It wasnae just Easterhouse': The Politics of Representation in the Glasgow Gang Phenomenon, c. 1965-75; Angela Bartie and Alistair Fraser.- Gang Girls: Agency, Sexual Identity and Victimisation 'On Road'; Tara Young and Loretta Trickett.- 'Silence is Virtual': Youth Violence, Belonging, Death and Mourning; William 'Lez' Henry and Sireita Mullings-Lawrence.- Index

Provides new perspectives on why young people rebel, revolt and riot.Focuses on the specific role played by forms of youth culture in acts of disobedience and deviancy.Examines a wide range of case studies, from the private spaces of the teenage bedroom to the public streets of riot-torn Bristol.