The Subcultures Reader : Second Edition

ISBN-13: 9780415344159 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 656 str.

Ken Gelder; Ken Gelder

Opis

Subcultures come in many different forms, from teds and skinheads to skateboarders, clubbers, New Age travelers and comic book fans. "The Subcultures Reader" brings together key writings on subcultures beginning with the early work of the Chicago School on "deviant" social groups such as gangs and taxi-dancers, and research from the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies at the University of Birmingham during the 1970s on working-class youth cultures and punks.
These classic texts are combined with essential contemporary writings on an eclectic array of subcultural formations defined through their social position, their styles, their sexuality, their politics and their music. Subcultures can be local and face-to-face; but they can also be global, mediated and "virtual." This new edition gives expression to the diversity of subcultural identifications, from communities, scenes and "tribes" to the "global underground."

Spis treści

Part 1: Sub-Societies and the Sociological Tradition  Part  2: Youth Sub-Cultures  Part 3: Contesting the Subcultural Terrain  Part 4: Ethics and Ethnography  Part 5: Historical Studies  Part 6: Spatial Organizations and Territorial Identities  Part 7:  Sounds, Styles, and Embodied Politics  Part 8: Mediated, Commercial and Virtual Subcultures

O autorze

Ken Gelder is a Reader in the Department of English and Cultural Studies at the University of Melbourne. His books include Reading the Vampire (1994) and, with Jane M. Jacobs, Uncanny Australia: Sacredness and Identity in a Postcolonial Nation (1998). He is also editor of The Horror Reader (2000). His new book, Popular Fiction: The Logics and Practices of a Literary Field, will be published by Routledge in December 2004.