ENGLISH

Subculture: The Meaning of Style

By Dick Hebdige

Book information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
1979
ISBN
9780415039499, 0415039495, 0203139941, 9780203139943, 9780203325407
LCC
HQ799.G7 H4 1991
Open Library ID
OL2025736M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
525 kB (538005 bytes)
Series
New Accents
Edition
New Ed
Pages
208\206
Scanned
yes
Time added
2011-04-20 14:05:05

Description

'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

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