ISBN:
9780203139943
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (202 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
Series Statement:
New Accents Ser.
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
305.2/35/0941
Keywords:
Subculture - Great Britain
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Electronic books
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Subculture
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Youth ; Great Britain ; History ; 20th century
Abstract:
'Hebdige's Subculture: The Meaning of Style is so important: complex and remarkably lucid, it's the first book dealing with punk to offer intellectual content. Hebdige [...] is concerned with the UK's postwar, music-centred, white working-class subcultures, from teddy boys to mods and rockers to skinheads and punks.' - Rolling Stone With enviable precision and wit Hebdige has addressed himself to a complex topic - the meanings behind the fashionable exteriors of working-class youth subcultures - approaching them with a sophisticated theoretical apparatus that combines semiotics, the sociology of devience and Marxism and come up with a very stimulating short book - Time Out This book is an attempt to subject the various youth-protest movements of Britain in the last 15 years to the sort of Marxist, structuralist, semiotic analytical techniques propagated by, above all, Roland Barthes. The book is recommended whole-heartedly to anyone who would like fresh ideas about some of the most stimulating music of the rock era - The New York Times.
Abstract:
Front Cover -- Subculture -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- General Editor's Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Subculture and Style -- One -- From culture to hegemony -- Part One: Some case studies -- Two -- Holiday in the sun: Mister Rotten makes the grade -- Boredom in Babylon -- Three -- Back to Africa -- The Rastafarian solution -- Reggae and Rastafarianism -- Exodus: A double crossing -- Four -- Hipsters, beats and teddy boys -- Home-grown cool: The style of the mods -- White Skins, black masks -- Glam and glitter rock: Albino camp and other diversions -- Bleached roots: Punks and white 'ethnicity' -- Part Two: A reading -- Five -- The Function of subculture -- Specificity: Two types of teddy boy -- The sources of style -- Six -- Subculture: The unnatural break -- Two forms of incorporation -- Seven -- Style as intentional communication -- Style as bricolage -- Style in revolt: Revolting style -- Eight -- Style as homology -- Style as signifying practice -- Nine -- O.K., it's Culture, but is it Art? -- Conclusion -- References -- Bibliography -- Suggested Further Reading -- Index.
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