| Subcultures Set Contributor(s): Gelder, Ken (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0415379571 ISBN-13: 9780415379571 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $1727.81 Product Type: Boxed Set - Other Formats Published: April 2007 Annotation: P Subcultures attract a great deal of interest, both in popular media and in academic work. /P P 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 subcultures in sixteenth-century England, the set then presents case studies that contrast work on gangs and graffiti with CCCS work on subcultures. Volume three then follows CCCS work on punks, by turning to music subcultures, and, lastly, the fourth volume highlights five recent trends in subcultural studies - body subcultures, sexed subcultures, fan and micro-media communities, grassroots and ???neo-pagan??? subcultures, and ???virtual communities??? and cybercultures. /P |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social - Social Science | Popular Culture - History | Social History |
| Dewey: 306.1 |
| LCCN: 2009286101 |
| Series: Critical Concepts in Media and Cultural Studies |
| Physical Information: 0.66" H x 6.46" W x 9.44" (0.94 lbs) 1616 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 subcultures in sixteenth-century England, the set then presents case studies that contrast work on gangs and graffiti with CCCS work on subcultures. Volume three then follows CCCS work on punks, by turning to music subcultures, and, lastly, the fourth volume highlights five recent trends in subcultural studies - body subcultures, sexed subcultures, fan and micro-media communities, grassroots and 'neo-pagan' subcultures, and 'virtual communities' and cybercultures. |