Resistance Through Rituals. Youth subcultures in Post-War Britain

This revised and expanded edition of "Resistance through Rituals" includes a new introduction to bring the reader fully up-to-date with the changes that have happened since the work's first release in the double issue of "Working Papers in Cultural Studies" in 1975.

The work of the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies at Birmingham has been noted as historically leading the field in the new areas of enquiry within the field of cultural studies, and the papers from the Centre are canonical reading for many cultural studies students. This revised edition includes all the original, exceptional papers, and enhances these with the reflections of the editors thirty years after the original publication.

At a time when youth culture had been widely publicised, but few people understood its significance as one of the most striking and visible manifestations of social and political change, these papers redressed the balance. Looking in detail at the wide range of post-war youth subcultures, from teds, mods and skinheads to black Rastafarians, Resistance through Rituals considers how youth culture reflects and reacts to cultural change.

This text represents the collective understanding of the leading centre for contemporary culture, and serves to situate some of the most important cultural work of the twentieth century in the new millennium.

CONTENIDO

Once more around Resistance through Rituals
Introduction

Part I. Theory
1. Subcultures, cultures and class (John Clarke, Stuart Hall, Tony Jefferson, Brian Roberts)
2. Some notes on the relationship between the societal control culture and the news media, and the construction of a law and order campaign (CCCS Mugging Group)

Part II. Ethnography
3. Cultural responses of the Teds (Tony Jefferson)
4. The meaning of Mod (Dirk Hebdige)
5. The Skinheads and the magical recovery of community (John Clarke)
6. Doing nothing (Paul Corrigan)
7. The cultural meaning of drup use (Paul E. Willis)
8. Ethnography through the looking-glass (Geoffrey Pearson, John Twohig)
9. Communes (Colin Webster)
10. Reggae, Rastas and Rudies (Dick Hebdige)
-Appendix: Unemployment, the context of street boy culture (Rachel Powell)
11. A strategy for living (Iain Chambers)
12. Structures, cultures and biographies (Chas Critcher)

Part III. Theory II
13. Style (John Clarke)
14. Consciousness of class and consciousness of generation (Graham Murdock, Robin McGron)
15. Girls and Subcultures (Angela McRobbie, Jenny Garber)
16. A note on marginality (Rachel Powell, John Clarke)
17. The politics of youth culture (Paul Corrigan, Simon Frith)

Part IV. Method
18. Naturalistic research into subcultures and deviance (Brian Roberts)
19. The logic-of-enquiry of participant observation (Steve Butters)

References
Index