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Subcultures Reader Second Edition

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ISBN-10: 0415344166

ISBN-13: 9780415344166

Edition: 2nd 2005 (Revised)

Authors: Ken Gelder

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All the articles have been specially selected & edited for inclusion in the reader, and are grouped in sections, each with an editor's introduction. There is also a general introduction to the collection, which maps out the field of subcultural studies.
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Book details

List price: $60.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 11/11/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 656
Size: 7.28" wide x 9.61" long x 2.52" tall
Weight: 2.530
Language: English

List of illustrations
Acknowledgements
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Introduction: The Field of Subcultural Studies
The Chicago School and Urban Ethnography
Introduction to Part One
The City: Suggestions for the Investigation of Human Behavior in the Urban Environment [1925]
The Life-Cycle of the Taxi-Dancer [1932]
The Concept of the Sub-Culture and its Application [1947]
A General Theory of Subcultures [1955]
Research Method, Morality and Criminology [1967]
Notes on the Status of the Concept Subculture [1970]
The Birmingham Tradition and Cultural Studies
Introduction to Part Two
Subcultural Conflict and Working-Class Community [1972]
Subcultures, Cultures and Class [1975]
Girls and Subcultures [1977]
Culture, Institution, Differentiation [1977]
Subculture: The Meaning of Style [1979]
Second-Hand Dresses and the Role of the Ragmarket [1989]
Outside Cultural Studies: Critiques and Alternatives
Introduction to Part Three
The Subterranean World of Play [1971]
Symbols of Trouble [1980]
Defending Ski-Jumpers: A Critique of Theories of Youth Subcultures [1981]
Social Surveillance and Subjectification: The Emergence of 'Subculture' in the Work of Henry Mayhew [1990]
The Social Logic of Subcultural Capital [1995]
The Emotional Community: Research Arguments [1996]
Territories, Space, Otherness
Introduction to Part Four
Gangland [1927]
The Problem of Cornerville [1943]
Hospital Underlife: Places [1961]
Life on the Terraces [1978]
Blank Figures in the Countryside [2000]
Performing the City [2001]
Style, Fashion, Signature
Introduction to Part Five
Zoot-Suiters and Mexicans: Symbols in Crowd Behavior [1956]
Fashion and Revolt [1963]
Posing ... Threats, Striking ... Poses: Youth, Surveillance, and Display [1983]
Black Hair/Style Politics [1987]
The Graffiti Subculture: Making a World of Difference [2001]
Tattoo Enthusiasts: Subculture or Figuration? [2003]
Sexed Subjects
Introduction to Part Six
The Sociologist as Voyeur [1970]
Aids Activist Graphics: A Demonstration [1990]
Real Men, Phallicism and Fascism [1996]
When is a Body not a Body? When it's a Building [1996]
Drag Kings: Masculinity and Performance [1998]
Waiting for No Man: Bisexual Femme Subjectivity and Cultural Repudiation [1998]
Scenes of Music
Introduction to Part Seven
The Culture of a Deviant Group: The Dance Musician [1963]
Listening to Punk [1985]
Diaspora, Utopia and the Critique of Capitalism [1987]
Communities and Scenes in Popular Music [1991]
Disco 'Super-Culture': Consuming Foreing Sex in the Chinese Disco [1999]
Moments of Ecstasy: Oceanic and Ecstatic Experiences in Clubbing [1999]
Virtual, Mediated, Globalized
Introduction to Part Eight
Introduction to The Virtual Community [1994]
Community: The Zine Scene [1997]
Amateur Manga Subculture and the Otaku Incident [2000]
Meat and Metal [2000]
Communicating Goth: On-line Media [2002]
Notes on the Global Underground: Subcultures and Globalization [2004]