After Subculture : Crtitical Studies in Contemporary Youth Culture

by Edited by Andy Bennett and Keith Kahn-Harris

• ISBN13: 9780333977118
• ISBN10: 0333977114
• Format: Trade Book
• Copyright: 2004-06-26
• Publisher: Red Globe Pr

Summary

The concept of "subculture" has long been of significant importance in research on youth, style, deviance and popular culture.Although in more recent years subculture has been the subject of sustained critique, it still provides a valuable point of reference for study and research.This text offers students an up-to-date and wide-ranging account of new developments in youth culture research that reject, refine or reinvent the concept of subculture.Bringing together key theoretical statements with illuminating analyses of particular aspects of youth culture - popular music, clubbing, body modification, the internet, etc. - this is an ideal introduction to a diverse and wide-ranging field.

Author Biography

Andy Bennett is Lecturer in Sociology, University of Surrey, UK

Table of Contents

List of Figures	viii
Notes on the Contributors	ix
Acknowledgements	xii
Introduction
Andy Bennett and Keith Kahn-Harris	1	(50)
The Origins of Subcultural Theory	2	(2)
Subcultural Theory and the CCCS	4	(2)
Criticisms of the CCCS	6	(5)
Post-subcultural Theory	11	(3)
The Continued Significance of Subcultural Debates	14	(4)
Note	18	(3)
PART 1: THEORETICAL READINGS
1 Culture, Subculture and Social Organization
Peter J. Martin	21	(15)
Culture, Subculture and the Sociological Discourse	23	(3)
Weber and the 'Concepts of Collective Entities'	26	(2)
The Deconstruction of Collective Concepts	28	(2)
Rethinking 'Subculture'	30	(4)
Conclusion	34	(2)
2 Fragmented Culture and Subcultures David Chaney	36	(15)
Subcultures and Cultural Diversity	36	(1)
Changing Forms of Culture	37	(5)
The Changing Character of Culture	42	(4)
The Fragmentation of Culture	46	(2)
Notes	48	(3)
PART 2: CASE STUDIES
3 'It's Like Canada Reduced': Setting the Scene in Montreal
Geoff Stahl	51	(14)
Setting the Scene	52	(4)
Montreal	56	(1)
'derivative records'	57	(5)
Conclusion	62	(1)
Acknowledgements	63	(1)
Notes	64	(1)
4 Dance Nations: Rethinking Youth Subcultural Theory
Ben Carrington and Brian Wilson	65	(14)
Dance Music and Subcultural Theory	66	(5)
Racing the Argument	71	(5)
Conclusion	76	(2)
Acknowledgements	78	(1)
Notes	78	(1)
5 Tourists and Travellers? 'Subcultures', Reflexive Identities and Neo-Tribal Sociality
Paul Sweetman	79	(15)
Reflexivity and Identity	80	(5)
Neo-tribes and Emergent Socialities	85	(3)
Tourists and Travellers?	88	(4)
Conclusion	92	(1)
Notes	93	(1)
6 Teenage Girls"Bedroom Culture': Codes versus Zones
Sian Lincoln	94	(13)
Researching Bedroom Culture	95	(1)
Codes and Zones	95	(3)
Bedroom Culture in the 1990's	98	(2)
Creating Bedroom Spaces	100	(3)
Codes or Zones?	103	(2)
Conclusion	105	(1)
Note	106	(1)
7 Unspectacular Subculture? Transgression and Mundanity in the Global Extreme Metal Scene
Keith Kahn-Harris	107	(12)
The Extreme Metal Scene	108	(3)
Everyday Life and Scenic Involvement	111	(1)
The Logic of Mundanity	112	(5)
Conclusion	117	(2)
8 Youth Strategies for Glocal Living: Space, Power and Communication in Everyday Cultural Practice
Hilary Pilkington	119	(16)
Alternative Modernities and Subcultural Theories	120	(1)
Modernity, Consumption and Choice: Preconditions for 'Post-subculturalism'?	121	(3)
'Progressives' and 'Normals': Strategies for Glocal Living	124	(5)
Beneath Style: Space, Power and Communication	129	(2)
Conclusion	131	(2)
Notes	133	(2)
9 The Goth Scene and (Sub)Cultural Substance
Paul Hodkinson	135	(13)
The Goth Scene and Objections to the CCCS	136	(3)
Alternatives to Subculture	139	(2)
(Sub)Cultural Substance	141	(5)
Self-sufficient and Self-contained?	146	(1)
Conclusion	146	(1)
Notes	147	(1)
10 Buffy Night at the Seven Stars: A 'Subcultural' Happening at the 'Glocal' Level
Gerry Bloustien	148	(14)
Where Have All the Subcultures Gone?	148	(1)
Youth Cultures, Localities and Spaces to Play	149	(2)
'Fictionalized' Sites or 'A Place Where Everyone Knows Your Name' ...	151	(2)
Serious Play and Space	153	(1)
'Corning Out of the Closet'	154	(1)
The Importance of Time, Place and Subjectivity	155	(2)
The Stars Becomes The Angas	157	(1)
Other Possibilities: The Hilton and Tavern 540	158	(1)
The Bar on Gouger	158	(1)
A Fuss About Nothing?	159	(1)
Conclusion	159	(1)
Notes	160	(2)
11 Virtual Subculture? Youth, Identity and the Internet
Andy Bennett	162
Subculture and the Internet	163	(2)
Online/Oflline Continuities in Contemporary Youth Culture	165	(3)
Virtual Subculture as a Creative Strategy	168	(4)
Conclusion	172
Afterword
Simon Frith	173	(5)
Notes	178	(1)
Bibliography	179	(14)
Index	193