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The Subcultures Reader: Second Edition
Contributor(s): Gelder, Ken (Editor)
ISBN: 0415344166     ISBN-13: 9780415344166
Publisher: Routledge
OUR PRICE:   $65.50  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: September 2005
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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."
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BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social
- Social Science | Media Studies
Dewey: 306.1
LCCN: 2005000856
Physical Information: 1.4" H x 6.86" W x 9.68" (2.54 lbs) 656 pages
 
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Publisher Description:

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 from some of the biggest names in the field including Dick Hebdige, Paul Gilroy and Stanley Cohen, and expertly combines contemporary essays and critique with classic and canonical texts on subcultures.

Examining an eclectic array of subcultures, from New Age travellers, to comic book fans, The Reader looks at how they are defined through their social position, styles, sexuality, politics and their music, and this new edition gives expression to the diversity of subcultural identifications, from scenes and 'tribes' to the 'global underground'.

With specially selected articles, grouped sections, editors introductions and a general introduction which maps out the field, it gives students and teachers of cultural studies an invaluable study aid.