Youth Cultures

Andy Bennett is Professor of Cultural Sociology in the School of Humanities, Languages and Social Science at Griffith University and previously held academic positions in the UK and Canada. His areas of research specialism include youth culture, popular music scenes, history and heritage, local music industries, DIY culture and practice and qualitative research methods. He has written and edited numerous books including Popular Music and Youth Culture, Music, Style and Aging, British Progressive Pop 1970 - 1980 and Music Scenes (co-edited with Richard A. Peterson). He is a member of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM) and a former Chair of the UK and Ireland IASPM branch. In 1999 he co-founded the British Sociological Association Youth Study Group. He is also a member of The Australian Sociological Association (TASA) and former Editor in Chief of the Journal of Sociology. He is a Faculty Fellow of the Yale Center for Cultural Sociology, an Adjunct of the Institute of Sociology at the University of Porto, an International Research Fellow of the Finnish Youth Research Network, a founding member of the Consortium for Youth, Generations and Culture and a founding member of the Regional Music Research Group. He is also co-founder of KISMIF, a biennial conference focusing on DIY cultures and practice.

VOLUME ONE: HISTORY Youth on the Road: Reflections on the History of Tramping - Judith Adler From Counterculture to Consumer Culture Vespa and the Italian Youth Market, 1958-78 - Adam Arvidsson The Re-Invention of Bhangra: Social Change and Aesthetic Shifts in a Punjabi Music in Britain - Gerd Baumann Jipis, Pijos, Fiesteros: Studies on Youth Cultures in Spain 1960-2004 - Carles Fexia Pampols and Laura Porzio From Jukebox Boys to Revolting Students: Richard Hoggart and the Study of British Youth Culture - David Fowler The Emergence of a Modern Youth Culture: The Swedish 1930s - Mats Franzen The Hippies: An American "Moment" - Stuart Hall "Ducktails, Flick-Knives and Pugnacity": Subcultural and Hegemonic Masculinities in South Africa, 1948-1960 - Katie Mooney From Classlessness to Clubculture: A Geneaology of British Post-War Youth Cultural Analysis - David Muggleton "The Times They Are A-Changin"': The Music of Protest - Robert A. Rosenstone Diversity of Experience, Experience of Diversity: Turkish Migrant Youth Culture in Berlin - Levent Soysant Bodgies and Widgies - Youth Cultures in the 1950s - Jon Stratton Beyond the Skinheads: Comments on the Emergence and Significance of the Glamrock Cult - Ian Taylor and David Wall Shaping 1960s Youth in Britain and France: Fabulous and Salut les copains - Chris Tinker Hot Swing and the Dissolute Life: Youth, Style and Popular Music in Europe 1939-49 - Ralph Willet "Nailed to the X": A Lyrical History of the Straightedge Youth Subculture - Robert T. Wood VOLUME TWO: STYLE Subcultures or Neo-Tribes? Rethinking the Relationship between Youth, Style and Musical Taste - Andy Bennett Youth Subcultural Theory: A Critical Engagement with the Concept, Its Origins and Politics, from the Chicago School to Postmodernism - Shane Blackman Youth and Cultural Practice - Mary Bucholtz The Struggle for Ethnicity: Swedish Youth Styles and the Construction of Ethnic Identities - Erling Bjurstroem Consuming the Car: Anticipation, Use and Meaning in Contemporary Youth Culture - Eamonn Carrabine and Brian Longhurst Defending Ski-Jumpers: A Critique of Theories of Youth Subcultures - Gary Clarke Review: Badges of Half-Formed, Inarticulate Radicalism: A Critique of Recent Trends in the Study of Working Class Youth Culture - Chris Waters Tribal Aspects of Postmodern Consumption Research: The Case of French In-line Roller Skaters - Bernard Cova and Veronique Cova Real Punks and Pretenders: The Social Organisation of a Counterculture - Kathryn Joan Fox Israeli Youth Body Adornments: Between Protest and Conformity - Yehuda Jacobson and Diana Luzzatto Graffiti as Career and Ideology - Richard Lachmann Subculture, Style and Chavs and Consumer Capitalism: Towards a Critical Cultural Criminology of Youth - Greg Martin Settling Accounts with Youth Subcultures: A Feminist Critique - Angela McRobbie Shut Up and Dance: Youth Culture and Changing Modes of Femininity - Angela McRobbie U.S. Feminism-Grrrl Style! Youth (Sub)Cultures and the Technologics of the Third Wave - Ednie Kaeh Garrison Rules of Rebellion: Slamdancing, Moshing, and the American Alternative Scene - William Tsitsos VOLUME THREE: MUSIC Hip Hop Am Main: The Localisation of Rap Music and Hip Hop Culture - Andy Bennett Punks Not Dead: The Significance of Punk Rock for an Older Generation of Fans - Andy Bennett Pop in(to) the Bedroom: Popular Music in Pre-Teen Girls' Bedroom Culture - Sarah Louise Baker 'The Magic that Can Set You Free': The Ideology of Folk and the Myth of the Rock Community - Simon Frith Another Boring Day in Paradise - Lawrence Grossberg The 'Failure' of Youth Culture: Reflexivity, Music and Politics in the Black Metal Scene - Keith Kahn-Harris Subcultural Identity in Alternative Music Culture - Holly Kruse Into the "Jungle" - Benjamin Noys Swedish Youth and Music: Listening Patterns and Motivations - Keith Roe The Power of Love: Rai Music and Youth in Algeria - Marc Schade-Poulsen Youth Culture and the Making of the Post-Fordist Econony: Dance Music in Contemporary Britain - Richard J. Smith and Tim Maughan Why Doesn't Anybody Write Anything about Glam Rock - Jon Stratton Systems of Articulation, Logics of Change: Communities and Scenes in Popular Music - Will Straw Breakdance, Red Eyed Penguins, Vikings, Grunge and Straight Rock 'n' Roll: The Construction of Place in Musical Discourse in Rudenga, East Side Oslo - Viggo Vestel Just a Girl? Rock Music, Feminism, and the Cultural Construction of Female Youth - Gayle Wald Youth Culture, Music, and Cell Phone Branding in China - Jing Wang VOLUME FOUR: MEDIA Adolescents' Uses of Media for Self-Socialization - Jeffrey Jensen Arnett Virtual Subculture? Youth, Identity and the Internet - Andy Bennett Digital Participation at the Margins: Online Circuits of Rap Music by Portuguese Afro-Descendant Youth - Ricardo Campos and Jose Alberton Simoes "Where My Girls At?" Negotiating Black Womanhood in Music Videos - Rana A. Emerson Beyond the Myth of the "Cyberkid": Young People at the Margins of the Information Revolution - Keri Facer and Ruth Furlong Symbiotic Transformations: Youth, Global Media and Indigenous Culture in Malta - Joe Grixti Online Journals as Virtual Bedrooms: Young People, Identity and Personal Space - Paul Hodkinson and Sian Lincoln Music Television and the Invention of Youth Culture in India - Vamsee Juluri Interactive Subcultures and Oppositional Politics - Richard Kahn and Douglas Kellner "You Should Have Been There Man": Live Music, DIY Content and On-line Communities - Jessa Lingel and Mor Naaman Rethinking 'Moral Panic' for Multi-Mediated Social Worlds - Angela McRobbie and Sarah L. Thornton My Tribe: Post-subcultural Manifestations of Belonging on Social Network Sites - Brady Robards and Andy Bennett Youth Culture, Media and Globalization Processes in Greenland - Jette Rygaard The Rise of a "Me Culture" in Postsocialist China: Youth, Individualism and Identity Creation in the Blogosphere - Yangzi Sima and Peter C. Pugsley Authentic Identities: Straightedge Subculture, Music, and the Internet - J. Patrick Williams Rave and Straightedge, the Virtual and the Real: Exploring Online and Offline Experiences in Canadian Youth Subcultures - Brian Wilson and Michael Atkinson