The contributors demonstrate how the counterculture of the nineties offers a vibrant, provocative and positive alternative to institutionalised unemployment and the restricted freedoms and legislated pleasures of UK plc.
The contributors demonstrate how the counterculture of the nineties offers a vibrant, provocative and positive alternative to institutionalised unemployment and the restricted freedoms and legislated pleasures of UK plc.
Poor, but sexy: reflections on Berlin scenes
Exploring the relationship between the counterculture and American popular culture, this book looks at the ways in which Hollywood and corporate record labels commodified and adapted countercultural texts, and the extent to which countercultural artists and their texts were appr…
The American counterculture played a major role during a pivotal moment in American history. Post-War prosperity combined with the social and political repression characteristic of middle-class life to produce both widespread civil disobedience and artistic creativity in the Bab…
Howard Chudacoff describes a special and fascinating world: the urban bachelor life that took shape in the late nineteenth century, when a significant population of single men migrated to American cities. Rejecting the restraints and dependence of the nineteenth-century family, …
This title presents a handbook of the potent skinhead cult. It traces the development of the skinhead movement in England, describes the characteristics and behaviour of these gangs, and explains their attitudes towards school, the police, and the government.
"Adult Manga describes and analyses the rise and fall of the mammoth Japanese comic book industry since the 1960s and the complex new attitudes towards manga in Japan since the 1980s. Topics covered include the recent revival of manga censorship and the moral panic surrounding m…
