After Subculture: Critical Studies in Contemporary Youth Culture

Andy Bennett, Keith Kahn-Harris

Bloomsbury Academic, May 5, 2004 - Family & Relationships - 195 pages

The concept of 'subculture' has long been of significant importance in research on youth, style, deviance and popular culture. Although in more recent years subculture has been the subject of sustained critique, it still provides a valuable point of reference for study and research. This text offers students an up-to-date and wide-ranging account of new developments in youth culture research that reject, refine or reinvent the concept of subculture. Bringing together key theoretical statements with illuminating analyzes of particular aspects of youth culture - popular music, clubbing, body modification, the internet, etc. - this is an ideal introduction to a diverse and wide-ranging field.

About the author

Keith Kahn-Harris is a Research Associate at the Centre for Urban and Community Research, Goldsmiths College, London, and author of Extreme Metal: Music and Culture on the Edge (2006).

Bibliographic information

• Title: After Subculture: Critical Studies in Contemporary Youth Culture
• Editors: Andy Bennett, Keith Kahn-Harris
• Edition: illustrated, reprint
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic, 2004
• ISBN: 0333977122, 9780333977125
• Length: 195 pages
• Subjects: Family & Relationships / Life Stages / Adolescence; Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social; Social Science / Children's Studies; Social Science / Popular Culture; Social Science / Sociology / General