Subcultures: Cultural Histories and Social Practice

by Ken Gelder

Book Overview

This book presents a cultural history of subcultures, covering a remarkable range of subcultural forms and practices. It begins with London's 'Elizabethan underworld', taking the rogue and vagabond as subcultural prototypes: the basis for Marx's later view of subcultures as the lumpenproletariat, and Henry Mayhew's view of subcultures as 'those that will not work'. Subcultures are always in some way non-conforming or dissenting. They are social...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415379520
• ISBN13: 9780415379526
• Release Date: April 2007
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.3" x 9.1"