| Description |
vii, 188 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Subcultures : a vagabond history -- The Chicago School and after : sociology, deviance, and social worlds -- Bar scenes and club cultures : sociality, excess, utopia -- Literary subcultural geographies : Grub Street and bohemia -- Subcultures and cultural studies : community, class, and style at Birmingham and beyond -- Subculture, music, nation : jazz and hip hop -- Anachronistic self-fashioning : dandyism, tattoo communities and leatherfolk -- Fans, networks, pirates : virtual and media subcultures |
| Summary |
"This book presents a cultural history of subcultures, covering a remarkable range of subcultural forms and practices. It begins with London's 'Elizabethan underworld', taking the rogue and vagabond as subcultural prototypes: the basis for Marx's later view of subcultures as the lumpenproletariat, and Henry Mayhew's view of subcultures as 'those that will not work'. Subcultures are always in some way non-conforming or dissenting. They are social - with their own shared conventions, values, rituals, and so on - but they can also seem 'immersed' or self-absorbed."--BOOK JACKET |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 159-174 |
| Subject |
Culture -- Study and teaching.
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Subculture -- History.
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Subculture.
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| LC no. |
2006025762 |
| ISBN |
0415379512 (hbk.) |
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0415379520 (paperback) |
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9780415379519 (hbk.) |
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9780415379526 (paperback) |
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