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Youth Culture and Social Change Matthew Worley

Youth Culture and Social Change By Matthew Worley

Youth Culture and Social Change by Matthew Worley


Summary

This book brings together historians, sociologists and social scientists to examine aspects of youth culture. By so doing, Youth Culture and Social Change maps out new ways of historicizing responses to economic and social change: public unrest and popular culture.

Youth Culture and Social Change Summary

Youth Culture and Social Change: Making a Difference by Making a Noise by Matthew Worley

This book brings together historians, sociologists and social scientists to examine aspects of youth culture. The books themes are riots, music and gangs, connecting spectacular expression of youthful disaffection with everyday practices. By so doing, Youth Culture and Social Change maps out new ways of historicizing responses to economic and social change: public unrest and popular culture.

Youth Culture and Social Change Reviews

Youth Culture and Social Change is filled with important research and can be a constructive book for anyone working at the crossroads of popular music studies, history, and sociology (Kyle Chattleton, The Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth, Vol. 12 (2), 2019)

About Matthew Worley

The Subcultures Network was formed as the Interdisciplinary Network for the Study of Subcultures, Popular Music and Social Change in 2011. The Network's steering committee comprises Keith Gildart (University of Wolverhampton), Anna Gough-Yates (University if Roehampton), Sian Lincoln (Liverpool John Moores University), Bill Osgerby (London Metropolitan University), Lucy Robinson (University of Sussex), John Street (University of East Anglia), Pete Webb (University of the West of England) and Matthew Worley (University of Reading).

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements.-List of Figures.-List of Contributors.- Introduction; Subcultures Network.- Part 1: Riots.- Subcultures, Schools and Rituals:A Case Study of the Bristol Riots (1980); Roger Ball.-The Language of the Unheard:Social Media and Riot Subculture/s; Louis Rice.-My Manors Ill: How Underground Music Told the Real Story of the UK Riots;Sarah Attfield.-A Different Vibe and a Different Place:Re-telling the Riots;Roundtable (edited byLucy Robinson and Pete Webb).- Part 2: Music.- (Today I Met) The Boy Im Gonna Marry:Romantic Expectations of Teenage Girls in the1960s West Midlands;Ros Watkiss Singleton.-Agents of Change: Cultural Materialism,Post-Punk and the Politics of Popular Music;David Wilkinson.-How to Forget (and Remember) The Greatest Punk Rock Band in the World: Bad Brains,Hardcore Punk, and Black Popular Culture;Tara Marin Lopez andMichael Mills.- Part 3: Gangs.-It wasnae just Easterhouse: The Politics ofRepresentation in the Glasgow GangPhenomenon, c. 196575;Angela Bartie and Alistair Fraser.-Gang Girls: Agency, Sexual Identity and Victimisation On Road; Tara Young andLoretta Trickett.-Silence is Virtual: Youth Violence, Belonging,Death and Mourning;William Lez Henry andSireita Mullings-Lawrence.- Index

Additional information

NPB9781137529107
9781137529107
1137529105
Youth Culture and Social Change: Making a Difference by Making a Noise by Matthew Worley
New
Hardback
Palgrave Macmillan
2017-10-27
289
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