Cultural Histories and Social Practice
Buch, Englisch, 200 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 316 g
ISBN: 978-0-415-37952-6
Verlag: Routledge
- through their often negative relation to work: idle, parasitical, hedonistic, criminal
- their negative or ambivalent relation to class
- their association with territory - the ‘street’, the ‘hood’, the club - rather than property
- their movement away from home into non-domestic forms of ‘belonging’
- their ties to excess and exaggeration (as opposed to restraint and moderation)
- their refusal of the banalities of ordinary life and in particular, of massification.
Subcultures looks at the way these features find expression across many different subcultural groups: from the Ranters to the riot grrrls, from taxi dancers to drag queens and kings, from bebop to hip hop, from dandies to punk, from hobos to leatherfolk, and from hippies and bohemians to digital pirates and virtual communities. It argues that subcultural identity is primarily a matter of narrative and narration, which means that its focus is literary as well as sociological. It also argues for the idea of a subcultural geography: that subcultures inhabit places in particular ways, their investment in them being as much imaginary as real and, in some cases, strikingly utopian.
Zielgruppe
Postgraduate
Autoren/Hrsg.
Fachgebiete
- Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Kommunikationswissenschaften Interkulturelle Kommunikation & Interaktion
- Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Kultursoziologie
- Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
- Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft Theatersoziologie, Theaterpsychologie
Weitere Infos & Material
1. Subcultures: a vagabond history 2. The Chicago School, deviance and urban ethnography 3. Clubs and underworlds 4. Subcultures and Cultural Studies 5. The literary underground 6. Subcultures and music 7. Subcultures and Style 8. Bodies, Sex, Rituals and Belief 9. Virtual communities and global networks 10. The rise (and fall) of ‘post-subcultures’