{"product_id":"subcultures-cultural-histories-and-social-practice-9780415379526","title":"Subcultures: Cultural Histories and Social Practice","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis book presents a cultural history of subcultures, covering a remarkable range of subcultural forms and practices. It begins with London's 'Elizabethan underworld', taking the rogue and vagabond as subcultural prototypes: the basis for Marx's later view of subcultures as the\u003cem\u003e lumpenproletariat\u003c\/em\u003e, and Henry Mayhew's view of subcultures as 'those that will not work'. Subcultures are always in some way non-conforming or dissenting. They are social - with their own shared conventions, values, rituals, and so on - but they can also seem 'immersed' or self-absorbed. This book identifies six key ways in which subcultures have generally been understood: \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003ethrough their often negative relation to work: idle, parasitical, hedonistic, criminal\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003etheir negative or ambivalent relation to class\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003etheir association with territory - the 'street', the 'hood', the club - rather than property\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003etheir movement away from home into non-domestic forms of 'belonging'\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003etheir ties to excess and exaggeration (as opposed to restraint and moderation)\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003etheir refusal of the banalities of ordinary life and in particular, of massification.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSubcultures\u003c\/em\u003e 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 \u003cem\u003esubcultural geography\u003c\/em\u003e: that subcultures inhabit places in particular ways, their investment in them being as much imaginary as real and, in some cases, strikingly utopian.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ken Gelder\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Routledge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/09\/2007\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 200\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.68lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.12h x 6.32w x 0.44d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780415379526\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKen Gelder\u003c\/strong\u003e is Professor of Literary Studies and Cultural Studies at the University of Melbourne, Australia. His books include \u003cem\u003eReading the Vampire\u003c\/em\u003e (Routledge 1994), \u003cem\u003eUncanny Australia\u003c\/em\u003e (Melbourne University Press 1998) and \u003cem\u003ePopular Fiction: The Logics and Practices of a Literary Field\u003c\/em\u003e (Routledge 2004). He is editor of \u003cem\u003eThe Horror Reader\u003c\/em\u003e (Routledge 2000) and \u003cem\u003eThe Subcultures Reader Second Edition\u003c\/em\u003e (Routledge 2005). \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Routledge","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43939193258099,"sku":"9.78042E+12","price":77.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_fda82bb3-1717-4b0c-97c7-aff8aeda087a.jpg?v=1758877916","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/subcultures-cultural-histories-and-social-practice-9780415379526","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}