Favoured by ethnographers with some degree of closeness to the culture they wish to
examine, the cultural participant as insider researcher has become relatively commonplace …

While the growing field of scholarship on heavy metal music and its subcultures has
produced excellent work on the sounds, scenes, and histories of heavy metal around the …

During the last decade in particular, the scope of queer scholarship has expanded. Queer
readings, theories and problematics now pervade multiple sites of cultural and sociological …

The cultural turn in sociology and related fields of study has brought with it new
understandings of the various ways social identities are formed. In a post-structural …

Historically, research on music cultures has favoured examination of the subcultural
affiliations of the youthful urban white working-class heterosexual male. While the …

For decades, stand-up comedy has been central to the imbrication of popular culture and
political discourse, reshaping the margins of political critique, and often within the contexts of …

The text analyses identities within virtual on-screen environments. Investigating regions in
Second Life, it explores topical issues of the body in virtual space, nature and mythology in …

This article investigates the 'becoming'of queer female punx in the contemporary hardcore
scene in a regional Australian city. Twelve young women aged 20–30 years were …

Queer (ed) bodies in punk subculture problematize deeply embedded heterosexual, cismale
occupation of space and time. Traditional modes of media and documentation aid in …

Across ages and cultures, music's relationship to sexual allure and its adept capacity for
invoking pleasure, eroticism, and desire are well established. Music's ability to arouse and …