Broschiertes Buch

DIY Culture

Party and Protest in Nineties' Britain

Herausgeber: Mckay, George

Beschreibung

This is a collection of in-depth and reflective pieces by activists and other key figures in "DiY culture", who tell their own stories and histories. The book argues that popular protest of the 1990s is characterized by a culture of immediacy and direct action. From the environmentalist to the video activist, the raver to the road protester, the neo-pagan to the anarcho-capitalist, the authors demonstrate how the counterculture of the 1990s offers a positive alternative to insitutionalized unemployment and the restricted freedoms and legislated pleasures.

Autor

George McKay is Professor of Cultural Studies at the University of Salford, UK, where he is Director of the Communication, Cultural & Media Studies Research Centre. He writes on alternative cultures and identities--'cultural studies with a soundtrack' is how his website puts it--and his books include DiY Culture, Senseless Acts of Beauty, Glastonbury: A Very English Fair, Community Music: A Handbook (co-edited with Pete Moser), Circular Breathing: The Cultural Politics of Jazz in Britain, Radical Gardening: Politics, Idealism & Rebellion in the Garden, and Shakin' All Over: Popular Music and Disability. He maintains his own website at georgemckay.org.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Verso
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Juli 1998
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 190mm x 136mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 558g
• ISBN-13: 9781859842607
• ISBN-10: 1859842607
• Artikelnr.: 23070375