The purpose of this article is to explore how creative competencies acquired through
involvement in music and style-based youth cultures are being converted by young people …

What happens to punks, clubbers, goths, riot grrls, soulies, break-dancers and queer scene
participants as they become older? For decades, research on spectacular'youth cultures' …

Subcultures: The Basics is an accessible, engaging introduction to youth cultures in a global
context. Blending theory and practice to examine a range of subcultural movements …

Questions of symbolic classification have been central to sociology since its earliest days,
given the relevance of distinctions for both affiliation and conflict. Music and its genres are …

In 1991, the journal Cultural Studies published a special issue dedicated to the discussion of
popular music. Coedited by two Canadian academics–John Shepherd and Will Straw–the …

Social movements play a central role in the scope and direction of social change. They were
instrumental in the creation of the modern state and, today, are major forces in politics and …

Subcultures attract attention in culture, society, and the media because they have been
theorized as not merely distinct from, but also in opposition to, the dominant culture. In the …

This updated, new edition of Introducing Cultural Studies provides a systematic and
comprehensible introduction to the concepts, debates and latest research in the field …

This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme
and is available on www. bloomsburycollections. com. Attempts by people to enact their …

This article focuses on presenting, analysing and understanding the 'do-it-yourself'(DIY)
representations of over 200 participants in Portuguese punk music scenes between 1977 …