After Subculture

ANDY BENNETT is Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Surrey. He is author of Popular Music and Youth Culture (Palgrave, 2000) and co-editor of Guitar Cultures (Berg, 2001). He is Chair of the UK and Ireland branch of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM) and co-convenor of the British Sociological Association Youth Study Group.KEITH KAHN- HARRIS received his doctorate from Goldsmith College on the global Extreme Metal music scene. He has been a Fellow at the Mandel School for Advanced Educational Leadership, Jerusalem and a visiting scholar at Monash University Australian Centre for Jewish Civilisation, Melbourne. He currently works as an Associate Lecturer for the Open University and as an independent research consultant, specialising in the field of Jewish communal and educational development.

• Introduction; A.Bennett & K.Kahn-HarrisSECTION 1: THEORETICAL READINGSCulture, Subculture and Social Organisation; P.J.MartinFragmented Culture and Subcultures; D.ChaneySECTION 2: EMPIRICAL STUDIES'It's Like Canada Reduced': Setting the Scene in Montreal; G.StahlDance Nations: Rethinking Youth Subcultural Theory; B.Carrington & B.WilsonTourists and Travellers? 'Subcultures', Reflexive Identities and Neo-Tribal Sociality; P.SweetmanTeenage Girls' 'Bedroom Culture': Codes Versus Zones; S.LincolnUnspectacular Subculture?: Transgression and Mundanity in the Global Extreme Metal Scene; K.Kahn-HarrisYouth Strategies for Glocal Living: Space, Power and Communication in Everyday Cultural Practice; H.PilkingtonThe Goth Scene and (Sub)Cultural Substance; P.HodkinsonBuffy Night at the Seven Stars: A 'Subcultural' Happening at the 'Glocal' Level; G.BloustienVirtual Subculture? Youth, Identity and the Internet; A.BennettAfterword; S.FrithBibliographyIndex.