After Subculture Crtitical Studies in

The concept of "subculture" has long been of significant importance in research on youth, style, deviance and popular culture.Although in more recent years subculture has been the subject of sustained critique, it still provides a valuable point of reference for study and research.This text offers students an up-to-date and wide-ranging account of new developments in youth culture research that reject, refine or reinvent the concept of subculture.Bringing together key theoretical statements with illuminating analyses of particular aspects of youth culture - popular music, clubbing, body modification, the internet, etc. - this is an ideal introduction to a diverse and wide-ranging field.

Andy Bennett is Lecturer in Sociology, University of Surrey, UK

List of Figures

viii

Notes on the Contributors

ix

Acknowledgements

xii

Introduction

Andy Bennett and Keith Kahn-Harris

1

(50)

The Origins of Subcultural Theory

2

(2)

Subcultural Theory and the CCCS

4

(2)

Criticisms of the CCCS

6

(5)

Post-subcultural Theory

11

(3)

The Continued Significance of Subcultural Debates

14

(4)

Note

18

(3)

PART 1: THEORETICAL READINGS

1 Culture, Subculture and Social Organization

Peter J. Martin

21

(15)

Culture, Subculture and the Sociological Discourse

23

(3)

Weber and the 'Concepts of Collective Entities'

26

(2)

The Deconstruction of Collective Concepts

28

(2)

Rethinking 'Subculture'

30

(4)

Conclusion

34

(2)

2 Fragmented Culture and Subcultures

David Chaney

36

(15)

Subcultures and Cultural Diversity

36

(1)

Changing Forms of Culture

37

(5)

The Changing Character of Culture

42

(4)

The Fragmentation of Culture

46

(2)

Notes

48

(3)

PART 2: CASE STUDIES

3 'It's Like Canada Reduced': Setting the Scene in Montreal

Geoff Stahl

51

(14)

Setting the Scene

52

(4)

Montreal

56

(1)

'derivative records'

57

(5)

Conclusion

62

(1)

Acknowledgements

62

(1)

Notes

63

(2)

4 Dance Nations: Rethinking Youth Subcultural Theory

Ben Carrington and Brian Wilson

65

(10)

Dance Music and Subcultural Theory

66

(5)

Racing the Argument

71

(5)

Conclusion

76

(2)

Acknowledgements

78

(1)

Notes

78

5 Tourists and Travellers? 'Subcultures', Reflexive Identities and Neo-Tribal Sociality

Paul Sweetman

75

(19)

Reflexivity and Identity

80

(5)

Neo-tribes and Emergent Socialities

85

(3)

Tourists and Travellers?

88

(4)

Conclusion

92

(1)

Notes

93

(1)

6 Teenage Girls' 'Bedroom Culture': Codes versus Zones

Sian Lincoln

94

(13)

Researching Bedroom Culture

95

(1)

Codes and Zones

95

(3)

Bedroom Culture in the 1990's

98

(2)

Creating Bedroom Spaces

100

(3)

Codes or Zones?

103

(2)

Conclusion

105

(1)

Note

106

(1)

7 Unspectacular Subculture? Transgression and Mundanity in the Global Extreme Metal Scene

Keith Kahn-Harris

107

(12)

The Extreme Metal Scene

108

(3)

Everyday Life and Scenic Involvement

111

(1)

The Logic of Mundanity

112

(5)

Conclusion

117

(2)

8 Youth Strategies for Glocal Living: Space, Power and Communication in Everyday Cultural Practice

Hilary Pilkington

119

(16)

Alternative Modernities and Subcultural Theories

120

(1)

Modernity, Consumption and Choice: Preconditions for 'Post-subculturalism'?

121

(3)

'Progressives' and 'Normals': Strategies for Glocal Living

124

(5)

Beneath Style: Space, Power and Communication

129

(2)

Conclusion

131

(2)

Notes

133

(2)

9 The Goth Scene and (Sub)Cultural Substance

Paul Hodkinson

135

(13)

The Goth Scene and Objections to the CCCS

136

(3)

Alternatives to Subculture

139

(2)

(Sub)Cultural Substance

141

(5)

Self-sufficient and Self-contained?

146

(1)

Conclusion

146

(1)

Notes

147

(1)

10 Buffy Night at the Seven Stars: A 'Subcultural' Happening at the 'Glocal' Level

Gerry Bloustien

148

(14)

Where Have All the Subcultures Gone?

148

(1)

Youth Cultures, Localities and Spaces to Play

149

(2)

'Fictionalized' Sites or 'A Place Where Everyone

Knows Your Name' ...

151

(2)

Serious Play and Space

153

(1)

'Coming Out of the Closet'

154

(1)

The Importance of Time, Place and Subjectivity

155

(2)

The Stars Becomes The Angus

157

(1)

Other Possibilities: The Hilton and Tavern 540

158

(1)

The Bar on Gouger

158

(1)

A Fuss About Nothing?

159

(1)

Conclusion

159

(1)

Notes

160

(2)

11 Virtual Subculture? Youth, Identity and the Internet

Andy Bennett

162

Subculture and the Internet

163

(2)

Online/Offline Continuities in Contemporary Youth Culture

165

(3)

Virtual Subculture as a Creative Strategy

168

(4)

Conclusion

172

Afterword

Simon Frith

173

(5)

Notes

178

(1)

Bibliography

179

(14)

Index

193

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