Body Style

by Winge, Theresa M.

• ISBN13: 9781847880017
• ISBN10: 1847880010
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-04-15
• Publisher: Berg Pub Ltd

Summary

The body has been analyzed, theorized, and politicized. However, the subcultural body has been primarily sensationalized. Body Style, the first book in the new Subcultural Style series, does not attempt to compete with these sensationalized accounts rather it reveals the subcultural body as a site for understanding subcultural identity, resistance, agency, and fashion. Analyzed, theorized, politicized, and sensationalized, the subcultural body functions as a framework on which a sense of self and a subcultural identity is built. Body Style is the result of over eleven years of research with urban subcultures from North America, Europe, Australia, and Asia, such as Goths, Modern Primitives, Neo-Tribals, Punks, Cybers, Industrials, Japanese Lolitas, Cosplayers, and others. Divided into three main sections on subcultural body history, subcultural body identity and subcultural body fashions, this book will be of particular interest to students of dress and fashion as well as those coming to subculture from sociology and cultural studies.

Author Biography

Theresa M. Winge is Assistant Professor of Fashion Design and Theory in the Department of Art and Art History, Michigan State University. In recent years, Winge's research has focused on the socio-cultural aspects of Modern Primitive body modifications and Japanese Lolitas.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Hip Hop and Rap Subcultures

Consuming Subcultures

Toward a Working Definition of subcultures

Defining "Subculture" in this Research

Dress, Body Modification, and the Subcultural Body

Entrée into Subcultural Research

An Examination of Subcultural Body Style

Overview

Footnotes

Subcultural Body Style History

The Body

Mind/Body Dualism

Postmodern Body

Somatic Body

Politicizing the Body

Existential Postmodern Body

Gendered Body

The Body and Dress

Subcultural Body

Victorian Tattooed Ladies

Anthropology and the Subcultural Body

Socialization of the Subcultural Body

Punks

Skates

Zokus

Phenomenology of the Subcultural Body

Subcultural Rituals of Pain

Subcultural Body Labels

Piercings

Skin Resurfacing

Implants

Chapter Summary

Footnotes

Subcultural Body Identity

Subcultural Body

Customization

Noisy Aesthetics

Displayed Body

Performance

Kurasu-zoku (Crow Tribe)

Commodity (Value)

Fetishized Deviance

Disguise

Social Body

Belonging

Narration

Primal Body

The Other

Ritualized Body

Drag

Sun Dance

Spiritual Body

Transcendence

Magick

Healing

Phenomenological Body

Sentient Body

Being in the Moment

Bodily Awareness and Knowledge

Tolerance and Control

Subcultural Body Identity: Lolita

Chapter Summary

Footnotes

Subcultural Body Styles

Subcultural Style Guidelines

Roller Derby Girls

Lolitas

Visual Culture

Subcultural Body Aesthetics

Vampires

Zokus

Noise: Non-verbal Communication of the Subcultural Body

Subcultural Noise: Body Modifications

Modern Primitives

Yakuza

Subcultural Noise: Body Supplements

Black Leather Jacket

Subcultural Noise: Music

Headbanger

Material Culture

Subcultural Body Styles

Cosplayers

Furries

Drag Queens and Kings

Fetish

Subcultural Body Processes

Did that hurt?

Subcultural Anti-fashion

Fashion Designers

Branding the Subcultural Body

Not Just for Kids

Subcultural Body Styles: Modern Primitives and the Body Renaissance

Fakir Musafar

Modern Primitive History

Modern Primitive Criticisms

Body Renaissance

Chapter Summary

Footnotes

Conclusions

Fashioning the Subcultural Body

Tattoo Today, Gone Tomorrow

Fashionable Fetish

Subcultural Reactions

Body Technologies Old and New

Precision Piercing

Hook Hanging

Three-dimensional Rigid Implants

Needles, Hooks, and Blood-Oh My!

It's Real to Me

Anonymity

Church of the Body Modification

Media-ted Body

Summary

Further Readings

Bibliography

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