In the years following the Civil War, a veritable army of homeless men swept across America's "wageworkers' frontier" and forged a beguiling and bedeviling counterculture known as "hobohemia." Jealously guarding the American road as the preserve of white manhood, hoboes swaggere…
The Fabric of Subcultures reflects on the state of the postcolonial signature behind stylistic refinements - a world of letters relatively dependent on the West for economic and political realms, and in which language systems, aesthetic orders, and genres struggle for dominance.…
The Fabric of Subcultures reflects on the state of the postcolonial signature behind stylistic refinements - a world of letters relatively dependent on the West for economic and political realms, and in which language systems, aesthetic orders, and genres struggle for dominance.…
This book is about online subcultures taking shape in the force field between control and subversion. Combining classic theories of space, power and resistance with current case studies of digital piracy, online activism and remix culture, the book develops a cultural theory of …
"A warm night in Abu Dhabi, back in 2011. Under the stadium lights a 30,000-strong crowd wait for Metallica's first ever show in the Middle East. Many have faced untold violence, but for tonight, nothing else matters. This is the story of that crowd. Of the people and the music …
Identifying 'permissive populism', the trickle down of permissiveness into mass consumption, as a key feature of the 1970s, Leon Hunt considers the values of an ostensibly 'bad' decade and analyses the implications of the 1970s for issues of taste and cultural capital. Hunt expl…
The trickle down of permissiveness into mass consumption is viewed as a key feature of the 1970s. Hunt considers the values of an ostensibly "bad" decade and analyses the implications of the 1970s for issues of taste and cultural capital.