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About a young girl who, kept out of school, leaves her survivalist family and goes on to earn a PhD from Cambridge University
"This volume, taking an international perspective, reconstructs the main interpretative models developed for the analysis of subcultures and lifestyles, and then proposes a new analytical model based on an intersection between these two research traditions"-- "Lifestyles and su…
Cyberspaces of their own: female fandoms online
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This books explores the extent to which raver youths' experiences are constrained or determined by individualistic, high-tech, mass-mediated Western culture in which alientated and unfulfilled youth are apparently more at-risk for escapist and thrill-seeking behaviours. Wilson c…
Subcultures, popular music and social change
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Style-based subcultures, scenes and tribes have pulsated through the history of social, economic and political change. From 1940's zoot-suiters and hepcats; through 1950's rock 'n' rollers, beatniks and Teddy boys; 1960's surfers, rudeboys, mods, hippies and bikers; 1970's skinh…
"Authenticity is much sought after; being described as inauthentic is an insult or an embarrassment. Being authentic suggests that a given behaviour or performance is reflective of a 'trueness' or 'genuineness' to one's identity. From a social science perspective there is someti…
Opgør med den moderne aktivisme mod mainstream-forbrugerisme. Ifølge forfatterne foreslår grupper som Attac og Adbusters blot en alternativ forbrugerisme, der fungerer på samme vilkår som den kapitalisme de hævder at bekæmpe
"Body Style reveals the subcultural body as a site for understanding subcultural identity, resistance, agency and fashion. Analyzed, theorized, politicized, and sensationalized, the subcultural body functions as a framework where individuals build a sense of self and subcultural…
Body Style reveals the subcultural body as a site for understanding subcultural identity, resistance, agency, and fashion. Analyzed, theorized, politicized, and sensationalized, the subcultural body functions as a framework where individuals build a sense of self and subcultural…
Fashioning memory: vintage style and youth culture
by Jenss, Heike
fromDress and fashion research
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The valuing of old clothes as vintage and the recollection of the sartorial past, whether through second-hand consumption or the wearing of new old-fashioned clothes, has become a widespread phenomenon. This book illuminates sartorial and bodily engagements with memory and time …
