Subcultures: Cultural Histories and Social Practice (repost)
Subcultures: Cultural Histories and Social Practice By Ken Gelder
Publisher: Routledge 2007 | 208 Pages | ISBN: 0415379520 | PDF | 2 MB
Publisher: Routledge 2007 | 208 Pages | ISBN: 0415379520 | PDF | 2 MB
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 some way non-conforming or dissenting. They are social - with their own shared conventions, values, rituals, and so on – but they can also seem ‘immersed’ or self-absorbed.