Frontmatter -- Contents -- Moments. Preface to the 2014 Edition -- 1. Introduction: Profanity and Creativity -- Part One -- 2. The Motor-bike Boys -- 3. The Motor-bike -- 4. The Golden Age -- Part Two -- 5. The Hippies -- 6. The Experience of Drugs -- 7. The Creative Age -- 8. Conclusions Cultural Politics -- Epilogue -- Theoretical Appendix -- Notes -- Index
Summary
A classic of British cultural studies, Profane Culture takes the reader into the worlds of two important 1960s youth cultures-the motor-bike boys and the hippies. The motor-bike boys were working-class motorcyclists who listened to the early rock ''n'' roll of the late 1950s. In contrast, the hippies were middle-class drug users with long hair and a love of progressive music. Both groups were involved in an unequal but heroic fight to produce meaning and their own cultural forms in the face of a larger society dominated by the capitalist media and commercialism
