Subculture

Complex and remarkably lucid, it's the first book dealing with punk to offer intellectual content. Hebdige is concerned with the U.K.'s postwar, music-centered, white working-class subcultures, from teddy boys to mods and rockers to skinheads and punks.--"Rolling Stone."

General Editor's Preface, Acknowledgements, Introduction: Subculture and Style, 1. From culture to hegemony, Part One: Some case studies, 2. Holiday in the sun: Mister Rotten makes the grade, Boredom in Babylon, 3. Back to Africa, The Rastafarian solution, Reggae and Rastafarianism, Exodus: A double crossing, 4. Hipsters, beats and teddy boys, Home-grown cool: The style of the mods, White skins, black masks, Glam and glitter rock: Albino camp and other diversions, Bleached roots: Punks and white 'ethnicity', Part Two: A reading, 5. The function of subculture, Specificity: Two types of teddy boy, The sources of style, 6. Subculture: The unnatural break, Two forms of incorporation, 7. Style as intentional communication, Style as bricolage, Style in revolt: Revolting style, 8. Style as homology, Style as signifying practice, 9. OK, it's Culture, but is it Art?, Conclusion, References, Bibliography, Suggested Further Reading, Index.