Subculture
The Meaning of Style
- Format: Pocket
- Antall sider: 208
- Språk: Engelsk
- Forlag/Utgiver: SD Books
- Serienavn: New Accents
- EAN: 9780415039499
- Utgivelsesår: 1979
- Bidragsyter: Hebdige, Dick (Dick Hebdige, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA)
''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