基本説明
Covers a remarkable range of forms and practices identifying six key ways in which subcultures have generally been understood: through their negative relation to work; their negative or ambivalent relation to class; their association with territory; their movement away from home into non-domestic forms of 'belonging'; their ties to excess and exaggeration; their refusal of the banalities of ordinary life and in particular, of massification.
Full Description
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. This book identifies six key ways in which subcultures have generally been understood:
through their often negative relation to work: idle, parasitical, hedonistic, criminal
their negative or ambivalent relation to class
their association with territory - the 'street', the 'hood', the club - rather than property
their movement away from home into non-domestic forms of 'belonging'
their ties to excess and exaggeration (as opposed to restraint and moderation)
their refusal of the banalities of ordinary life and in particular, of massification.
Subcultures looks at the way these features find expression across many different subcultural groups: from the Ranters to the riot grrrls, from taxi dancers to drag queens and kings, from bebop to hip hop, from dandies to punk, from hobos to leatherfolk, and from hippies and bohemians to digital pirates and virtual communities. It argues that subcultural identity is primarily a matter of narrative and narration, which means that its focus is literary as well as sociological. It also argues for the idea of a subcultural geography: that subcultures inhabit places in particular ways, their investment in them being as much imaginary as real and, in some cases, strikingly utopian.
Contents
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'
