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Youth Culture
Identity in a Postmodern World
Jonathan Epstein (Edited by)
9781557868510, Wiley
Paperback / softback, published 12 July 1998
352 pages
23.4 x 15.4 x 2.6 cm, 0.454 kg
This innovative collection of newly commissioned essays from leading experts in sociology and cultural studies looks at youth culture through subcultural identity. Youth Culture is the first text to bridge sociology and cultural studies in order to understand youth identity replacing the outmoded theories based on deviance. This volume examines the social worlds of young people in their "natural environments"; suburban bedrooms, shopping malls, rock concerts, and school. In addition, it explores the impact of the media and music on youth, using Beavis and Butthead, "grunge", and heavy metal bands as examples of youth subcultural identity. Epstein's collection of prominent writers and researchers will give you a better understanding of why youths, in particular, are prone to collective identity, and how they achieve their sense of self through fashion, music, sports and entertainment.
List of Contributors vii Acknowledgments x 1 Introduction: Generation X, Youth Culture, and Identity 1 2 Teenage Sexuality, Body Politics, and the Pedagogy of Display 24 3 Teens and Schools: Who is Falling through the Cracks and Why 56 4 Beavis and Butt-Head: No Future for Postmodern Youth 74 5 The Industrial Identity Crisis: the Failure of a Newly Forming subculture to Identity Itself 100 6 Identity and Status Stratification in Deadhead Subculture 118 7 “Don’t Need you:” Rethinking Identity Politics and Separatism from a Grrrl Perspective 148 8 “Frances Farmer Will Have Her Revenge on Seattle:” Pan-capitalism and Alternative Rock 189 9 “This Ain’t No Disco” … or is it? Youth culture and the Rave Phenomenon 195 10 Growing up Punk: Meaning and Commitment Careers on a Contemporary Youth Subculture 212 11 “When It All Changed:” Cyberpunk and the Baby Boom’s Rejection of Religious Institutions 232 12 Social Justice and Sexism for Adolescents: a Content Analysis of Lyrical Themes and Gender Presentations in Canadian Heavy Metal Music, 1985-1991 263 13 Incubus: Male Songwriters’ Portrayal of Women’s Sexuality in Pop Metal Music 286 14 Explorations in Youth Culture. Amateur Stripping: What We Know and What We Don’t 302 Index 327
Jonathon S. Epstein
Henry A. Giroux
Sarah Nixon-Ponder
Steven Best and Douglas Kellner
David A. Locher
Robert Sardiello
Mary Celeste Kearney
Javier Santiago-Lucerna
Lori Tomlinson
Linda Andes
Samuel R. Smith
Bruce K. Friesen and Warren Helfrich
Lisa J. Sloat
Thomas C. Calhoun, Julie Ann Harms Cannon and Rhonda Fisher
Subject Areas: Sociology & anthropology [JH]
