Subculture: The Meaning of Style

'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

''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

• | Author: Dick Hebdige
• | Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• | Publication Date: Aug 16, 1979
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• | Binding: Paperback / softback
• | ISBN-13: 9780415039499
• | ISBN-10: 0415039495