Ken Gelder

Subcultures (eBook, PDF)

Cultural Histories and Social Practice

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Presents a cultural history of subcultures. This book covers a range of subcultural forms and practices and identifies six ways in which subcultures have generally been understood. It argues that subcultural identity is a matter of narrative and narration, which means that its focus is literary as well as sociological.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Januar 2007
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134181278
• Artikelnr.: 43071476

Autorenporträt

Ken Gelder is Professor of Literary Studies and Cultural Studies at the University of Melbourne, Australia. His books include Reading the Vampire (Routledge 1994), Uncanny Australia (Melbourne University Press 1998) and Popular Fiction: The Logics and Practices of a Literary Field (Routledge 2004). He is editor of The Horror Reader (Routledge 2000) and The Subcultures Reader Second Edition (Routledge 2005).

Inhaltsangabe

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'