200 Pages
by
Routledge
200 Pages
by
Routledge
200 Pages
by
Routledge
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This 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 lumpenproletariat , and Henry Mayhew’s view of subcultures as ‘those that will not work’. Subcultures are always in... Read more
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’
Biography
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).
"It is an ambitious project, but one which Mills executes brilliantly." -Marilyn N. Metzl, Division Review, 2014
