Subculture to clubcultures : an introduction to popular cultural studies / Steve Redhead ; photographs by Patrick Henry.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Redhead, Steve, 1952-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Subculture--Great Britain.

Subculture.

Music and youth.

Youth.

Manners and customs.

Great Britain.

Youth--Great Britain--Social life and customs.

Popular culture--Great Britain.

Popular culture.

Popular music--Great Britain.

Popular music.

Music and youth--Great Britain.

Physical Description:

xii, 120 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford, UK ; Malden, MAss. : Blackwell Publishers, 1997.

Summary:

This book both updates and surpasses Dick Hebdige's seminal text, Subculture: The Meaning of Style, which applied an innovative meshing of literary and social theory to punk subcultures and earlier youth cults. In Subculture to Clubcultures, Steve Redhead responds to the separation of 'youth' and 'pop' in the 1980's and the fragmentation of the audience for popular music in the 1990's. He argues for a redefinition of the conceptual apparatus needed to explain the most recent developments in British popular music culture -- from the rise of 'Clubculture' to the future of the popular music scene.

Subculture to Clubcultures examines the British dance pop culture of the 1980's and 1990's, global youth culture as it was dynamized in this period by Garage, House, Electro, Techno, and other contemporary dance music forms, the consequences of this for the continued importance of various forms of rock and pop music, and finally a range of theoretical approaches to the economic and cultural condition of the postmodern.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [113]-114) and index.

ISBN:

0631197885

0631197893

OCLC:

36103729