Subcultures Books

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21. Youth Cultures

    Scenes, Subcultures and Tribes

    Edited by Paul Hodkinson, Wolfgang Deicke

    Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology

    Youth Cultures offers a comprehensive outline of youth cultural studies in the twenty-first century, with reference to a range of new research case studies. Featuring both well known and emerging scholars from the UK, the US and mainland Europe, the book addresses core theoretical and...

    Published April 28th 2009 by Routledge
22. Jerusalem

    Idea and Reality

    Edited by Tamar Mayer, Suleiman A. Mourad

    Jerusalem, the holy city of three faiths, has been the focus of competing historical, religious, and political narratives from Biblical chronicles to today’s headlines. With an aura that transcends the boundaries of time and place, the city itself embodies different levels of reality – indeed,...

    Published May 7th 2008 by Routledge
23. Subcultures

    Critical Concepts in Media and Cultural Studies

    Edited by Ken Gelder

    Series: Critical Concepts in Media and Cultural Studies

    Subcultures attract a great deal of interest, both in popular media and in academic work. Comprehensive and fascinating, these four volumes represent work on subcultures across several disciplines: cultural history, cultural studies, criminology and sociology. Beginning by looking at accounts of...

    Published April 29th 2007 by Routledge
24. Subcultures

    Cultural Histories and Social Practice

    By Ken Gelder

    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,...

    Published January 8th 2007 by Routledge
25. Global Youth?

    Hybrid Identities, Plural Worlds

    Edited by Pam Nilan, Carles Feixa

    This innovative collection of studies by international youth researchers, critically addresses questions of ‘global’ youth, incorporating material from regions as diverse as Sydney, Tehran, Dakar and Manila, and advancing our knowledge about young people around the globe. Exploring specific local...

    Published April 19th 2006 by Routledge
26. Beyond Subculture

    Pop, Youth and Identity in a Postcolonial World

    By Rupa Huq

    Presenting a new approach to the study of youth culture and popular music, Beyond Subculture re-examines the link between music and subcultures and asks the question; in an ageing world, can pop music still be an automatic metaphor for youth culture? Using case studies and first-hand interviews...

    Published March 27th 2006 by Routledge
27. The Subcultures Reader

    Second Edition

    Edited by Ken Gelder

    This revised and updated edition of a hugely successful book brings together the most valuable and stimulating writings on subcultures, from the early work of the Chicago School on ‘deviant’ social groups to the present day reasearch and theories. This new edition features a wide range of articles...

    Published September 29th 2005 by Routledge
28. Soho

    The Rise and Fall of an Artist's Colony

    By Richard Kostelanetz

    Soho: The Rise and Fall documents how a little-known industrial neighborhood in New York became, through one of the accidents of history, a nexus of creative activity for a brief but intensive period. Such an ideal situation--entirely unplanned--could not last forever; the author shows how market...

    Published May 8th 2003 by Routledge
29. Punk Rock: So What?

    The Cultural Legacy of Punk

    Edited by Roger Sabin

    It's now over twenty years since punk pogo-ed its way into our consciousness. Punk Rock So What?brings together a new generation of academics, writers and journalists to provide the first comprehensive assessment of punk and its place in popular music history, culture and myth. The contributors,...

    Published May 26th 1999 by Routledge
30. Microphone Fiends

    Youth Music and Youth Culture

    Edited by Tricia Rose, Andrew Ross

    Microphone Fiends, a collection of original essays and interviews, brings together some of the best known scholars, critics, journalists and performers to focus on the contemporary scene. It includes theoretical discussions of musical history along with social commentaries about genres like disco,...

    Published April 13th 1994 by Routledge