Youth Subcultures Exploring Underground America (A Longman Topics Reader)

by Greenberg, Arielle

• ISBN13: 9780321241948
• ISBN10: 0321241940
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-10-20
• Publisher: Pearson

Summary

Youth Subcultures uses a cultural studies lens to explore contemporary American youth subcultures such as skateboarding, punk, Goth, and raves in a brief, flexible, and inexpensive reader. Explores contemporary American youth subcultures. Skateboarding, ,Punk, Goth, Raves. General Interest: Youth Subcultures

Table of Contents

Rhetorical Contents	vii
Thematic Contents	xiii
Preface	xv
INTRODUCTION	1	(4)
CHAPTER 1 Roots and Origins	5	(48)
Michael Dennis, Youth Activism in the 1990's	5	(13)
Catherine Walsh, The Rainbow Family Gathering	18	(3)
G. Beato, The Lords of Dogtown	21	(15)
*Yoly A. Carrillo and Arielle Greenberg, Norteña Slang Dictionary	36	(2)
Deena Weinstein, Heavy Metal's Proud Pariahs	38	(15)
CHAPTER 2 Fitting in and Coming Together	53	(45)
Sasha Vliet, The Bboy Style on the Eastside	53	(11)
Rob Maitra, The Homeless Community of the Piers	64	(8)
Mimi Nguyen, Thoughts on the Movie Afro-Punk	72	(5)
*Heidi Schubert, Where We Belong: A Report on Anime Central 2004	77	(9)
Kylie Lee, My Life as an Enterprise Slash Writer	86	(12)
CHAPTER 3 Myths and Truths	98	(50)
Amy Wilkins, From Geeks to Freaks: Goth and the Middle Class	99	(5)
J. Patrick Williams, How the Internet Is Changing Straightedge	104	(12)
*Sarah Norton, My Night as a Wiccan: Dusting Away the Stereotypes	116	(5)
Natalie Porter, She Rips When She Skates: Female Skateboarders as Active Subcultural Participants	121	(15)
*Zhi Zhu, A Different View of Hackers	136	(12)
CHAPTER 4 Merchandise, Commercialism, and Co-opting the Scene	148	(42)
Adrienne Lai, Towards a Critical Understanding of "Asian Cute Culture"	149	(11)
*Emily Lamison, So Emo It Hurts	160	(10)
*Christina Robinson, Economic Status and Raving	170	(9)
Robert Rundquist, Street Skateboarding and the Government Stamp of Approval	179	(11)
CHAPTER 5 Dropping Out and Dropping Back in	190	(44)
Jerry Adler, The Graying of Aquarius	191	(5)
Johanna M. Hoadley, Growing Up and Out of the Rave Scene	196	(7)
Melissa McCray Pattacini, Deadheads Yesterday and Today: An Audience Study	203	(9)
John Lennon, Too Dirty to Be a Hobo?	212	(11)
Robert T Wood, A Straightedger's Journey	223	(11)
Credits	234