Youth Cultures

Scenes, Subcultures and Tribes

Paul Hodkinson, Wolfgang Deicke

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2007
• ISBN:
  9781134184767
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Popular Culture
• Index: Social Sciences

Youth Cultures offers a comprehensive outline of youth cultural studies in the twenty-first century, with reference to a range of new research case studies. Featuring both well known and emerging scholars from the UK, the US and mainland Europe, the book addresses core theoretical and methodological developments before going on to examine key substantive themes in the study of young people's identities and lifestyles. These include questions of commerce, power and politics, issues of gender and ethnicity, uses of place and space and impacts of new media and communications. Simultaneously offering an accessible introduction and a range of new contributions to the subject area, Youth Cultures will appeal to both students and academics within a range of disciplines, including sociology, media and cultural studies, youth studies and popular music studies.

Table of contents

• Routledge Advances in Sociology
• Contents
• Illustrations and Tables
• Acknowledgments
• 1 Youth cultures
• 2 As young as you feel
• 3 Recent concepts in youth cultural studies
• 4 ‘Insider’ and ‘outsider’ issues in youth research
• 5 Rethinking the subcultural commodity
• 6 Resistance or incorporation?
• 7 Resistance and commercialisation in ‘distasteful movements’
• 8 Gender, status and subcultural capital in the goth scene
• 9 Homegirls remember
• 10 Youth culture and ethnicity
• 11 Youth claiming space
• 12 Hip hop’s musicians and audiences in the local musical ‘milieu’
• 13 ‘Pin-up punks’
• 14 A ‘bounded virtuality’
• 15 Identity and structure in online gaming
• Bibliography
• Selective discography
• Contributors
• Index