Subculture: The Meaning of Style

by Dick Hebdige

Overview

'Hebdige's Subculture: The Meaning of Style is so important: complex and remarkably lucid, it's the first book dealing with punk to offer intellectual content. Hebdige [...] is concerned with the UK's postwar, music-centred, white working-class subcultures, from teddy boys to mods and rockers to skinheads and punks.' - Rolling Stone

With enviable precision and wit Hebdige has addressed himself to a complex topic - the meanings behind the fashionable exteriors of working-class youth subcultures - approaching them with a sophisticated theoretical apparatus that combines semiotics, the sociology of devience and Marxism and come up with a very stimulating short book - Time Out

This book is an attempt to subject the various youth-protest movements of Britain in the last 15 years to the sort of Marxist, structuralist, semiotic analytical techniques propagated by, above all, Roland Barthes. The book is recommended whole-heartedly to anyone who would like fresh ideas about some of the most stimulating music of the rock era - The New York Times

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415039499
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	08/16/1979
Series:	New Accents
Edition description:	Revised ed.
Pages:	208
Product dimensions:	5.06(w) x 7.81(h) x (d)

About the Author

A renowned cultural critic and theorist, Dick Hebdige has published widely on youth subculture, contemporary music, art and design, and consumer and media culture. His current interests include the integration of autobiography and mixed media in critical writing and pedagogy.

Table of Contents

Introduction; Chapter 1 One; Part 1 Some Case Studies; Chapter 2 Two; Chapter 3 Three; Chapter 4 Four; Part 2 A Reading; Chapter 5 Five; Chapter 6 Six; Chapter 7 Seven; Chapter 8 Eight; Chapter 9 Nine; Chapter 10 Conclusion;