2nd Edition

Resistance Through Rituals Youth Subcultures in Post-War Britain

Edited By Stuart Hall, Tony Jefferson Copyright 2006
292 Pages
by Routledge

288 Pages
by Routledge

288 Pages
by Routledge

Praise for the first edition: ‘No one seriously interested in youth mass culture or style can afford to ignore this work.’ - Stanley Cohen, The Times Higher Education Supplement   ‘The Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies deserves our gratitude for having begun to locate the real areas of discussion.’ - New Society ‘…affords an authoritative perspective of society’s subcultures... Read more
Part 1 Theory I; Chapter 1 Subcultures, Cultures and Class, John Clarke, Stuart Hall, Tony Jefferson, Brian Roberts; Chapter 2 Some Notes on the Relationship between the Societal Control Culture and the News Media, And the Construction of a Law and Order Campaign; Part 2 Ethnography; Chapter 3 Cultural Responses of the Teds, Tony Jefferson; Chapter 4 The Meaning of Mod, Dick Hebdige; Chapter 5 The Skinheads and the Magical Recovery of Community, John Clarke; Chapter 6 Doing Nothing, Paul Corrigan; Chapter 7 The Cultural Meaning of Drug use, Paul E. Willis; Chapter 8 Ethnography through the Looking-Glass, Geoffrey Pearson, John Twohig; Chapter 9 Communes, Colin Webster; Chapter 10 10 Reggae, Rastas and Rudies, Dick Hebdige; Chapter 11 A Strategy for Living, Iain Chambers; Chapter 12 Structures, Cultures, And Biographies, Chas Critcher; Part 3 Theory II; Chapter 13 Style, John Clarke; Chapter 14 Consciousness of Class and Consciousness of Generation, Graham Murdock, Robin McCron; Chapter 15 Girls and Subcultures, Angela McRobbie, Jenny Garber; Chapter 16 A Note on Marginality, Rachel Powell, John Clarke; Chapter 17 The Politics of Youth Culture, Paul Corrigan, Simon Frith; Part 4 Method; Chapter 18 Naturalistic Research into Subcultures and Deviance, Brian Roberts; Chapter 19 The Logic-Of-Enquiry of Part Icipant Observation, Steve Butters;

Biography

Stuart Hall is a cultural theorist who has contributed to key works on media and cultural studies, as well as politics. He was appointed Director of the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies at the University of Birmingham in 1968 and wrote many influential works during his time at the Centre., Tony Jefferson is Professor of Criminology at Keele University and was a contributor to the work of the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies at the University of Birmingham.