Ken Gelder

Subcultures

Cultural Histories and Social Practice

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Ken Gelder covers a remarkable range of forms and practices across many different subcultural groups: from the Ranters to the riot grrrls, from bebop to hip hop, and from hippies and Bohemians to digital pirates and virtual communities.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Januar 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 159mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 308g
• ISBN-13: 9780415379526
• ISBN-10: 0415379520
• Artikelnr.: 22531743

Autorenporträt

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).

Inhaltsangabe

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'