Volume 1: subcultural histories
Editor’s Introduction
i. rogues, vagabonds and cony-catchers: the ‘Elizabethan Underworld’
ii. hacks and scribblers: Grub Street and the literary underground
iii. club life: the Hell-Fire Club, gamblers, brothel-keepers
iv. Marx and the lumpenproletariat; Mayhew and the ‘wandering tribes’ of London
v. fashion and modernity: the rise of the dandy.
Two case studies:
(1) from the vagabond to the ‘hobo’.
(2) from the dandy to the zoot-suiter.
Volume 2: Chicago and Birmingham: sociology and cultural studies
i. community, ecology, eccentricity: Durkheim, Tonnies and Park
ii. deviance: criminology, subcultures and ‘adjustment’
iii. from gangs to beats and hustlers
iv. working-class subcultures: mods, Teds, punks and girls
v. style and ‘resistance’
Two case studies:
(1) from gangs to skateboarders: using the city
(2) from punk to post-punk: style and ‘refusal’
Volume 3: subcultures and music
i. jazz and the counterculture: from Adorno to Japan
ii. heavy metal genres, rock communities: case study 1
iii. disco, romance and discipline: case study 2
iv. club cultures, ecstasy, utopia
v. hip hop in the West and the East
Volume 4: new directions in subcultural studies
i. body and ‘skin’ subcultures: tattoos, piercing and ‘urban primitives’: case study 1
ii. sexed subcultures: queer, drag, gay, butch-femme
iii. hippies, grassroots, New Age Travellers and neo-pagans: community and counterculture
iv. fan and micro-media subcultures: from fanzines to manga
v. ‘virtual communities’ and cybercultures: case study 2
Biography
Edited by Ken Gelder
