The Clubcultures Reader Readings in Popular Cultural Studies [Paperback]

This reader in popular cultural studies meets the need for an up-to-date collection of readings on contemporary youth cultures and youth music.About the Authors.

Introduction: Reading Pop(ular) Cult(ural) Stud(ie)s: Steve Redhead.

Part I: Theory I:.

1. Pearls and Swine: Intellectuals and the Mass Media: Simon Frith and Jon Savage.

2. Over-the-Counter Culture: Retheorising Resistance in Popular Culture: Beverly Best.

Part II: Commentaries.

3. Organised Disorder: The Changing Space of the Record Shop: Will Straw.

4. Spatial Politics: A Gendered Sense of Place: Cressida Miles.

5. Let's All Have a Disco? Football, Popular Music and Democratisation: Adam Brown.

6. Rave Culture: Living Dream or Living Death?: Simon Reynolds.

7. Fear and Lothing in Wisconsin: Sarah Champion.

8. The House Sound of Chicago: Hillegonda Rietveld.

9. Cocaine Girls: Marek Kohn.

10. In the Supermarket of Style: Ted Polhemus.

11. Love Factory: The Sites, Practices and Media Relationships of Northern Soul: Kate Milestone.

12. DJ Culture: Dave Haslam.

Plates: Patrick Henry.

Part III: Theory II: .

13. The Post-Subculturalist: David Muggleton.

14. Reading Pop: The Press, the Scholar and the Consequences of Popular Cultural Studies: Steve Jones.

15. Re-placing Popular Culture: Lawrence Grossberg.

Index.

An excellent, wide-ranging and thought-provoking collection. It genuinely breaks new ground, is much more up to date than anything else in the field, and strikes a very good balance between descriptive and theoretical material. The case studies are fascinalSs