Subculture

Description

'Hebdige's Subculture: The Meaning of Style is so important: complex and remarkably lucid, it's the first book dealing with punk to offer intellectual content. Hebdige [...] is concerned with the UK's postwar, music-centred, white working-class subcultures, from teddy boys to mods and rockers to skinheads and punks.' - Rolling Stone With enviable precision and wit Hebdige has addressed himself to a complex topic - the meanings behind the fashionable exteriors of working-class youth subcultures - approaching them with a sophisticated theoretical apparatus that combines semiotics, the sociology of devience and Marxism and come up with a very stimulating short book - Time Out This book is an attempt to subject the various youth-protest movements of Britain in the last 15 years to the sort of Marxist, structuralist, semiotic analytical techniques propagated by, above all, Roland Barthes. The book is recommended whole-heartedly to anyone who would like fresh ideas about some of the most stimulating music of the rock era - The New York Times

First Sentence

The chic thing is to dress in expensive tailor-made rags and all the queens are camping about in wild-boy drag.

Subjects

Other Editions

• SubculturePaperbackRoutledge, an imprint of Taylor & Francis Books Lt2002-07-30
• SubcultureRoutledge1981-03-10
• SubcultureRoutledge1988-01-01
• SubcultureRoutledge1991-01-01
• SubcultureElectronic resourceTaylor & Francis Inc2004-01-01
• SubcultureTaylor & Francis Group2011-01-01