Jonathon S. Epstein is an internationally recognized expert on youth culture and rock music. He is a senior consultant for the Rock 'n Roll Hall of Fame and a Lecturer at Kent State University. He is the author of Adolescents and Their Music: If It's Too Loud You're Too Old (1994).

• List of Contributors viiAcknowledgments x1 Introduction: Generation X, Youth Culture, and Identity 1Jonathon S. Epstein2 Teenage Sexuality, Body Politics, and the Pedagogy of Display 24Henry A. Giroux3 Teens and Schools: Who is Falling through the Cracks and Why 56Sarah Nixon-Ponder4 Beavis and Butt-Head: No Future for Postmodern Youth 74Steven Best and Douglas Kellner5 The Industrial Identity Crisis: the Failure of a Newly Forming subculture to Identity Itself 100David A. Locher6 Identity and Status Stratification in Deadhead Subculture 118Robert Sardiello7 “Don’t Need you:” Rethinking Identity Politics and Separatism from a Grrrl Perspective 148Mary Celeste Kearney8 “Frances Farmer Will Have Her Revenge on Seattle:” Pan-capitalism and Alternative Rock 189Javier Santiago-Lucerna9 “This Ain’t No Disco” … or is it? Youth culture and the Rave Phenomenon 195Lori Tomlinson10 Growing up Punk: Meaning and Commitment Careers on a Contemporary Youth Subculture 212Linda Andes11 “When It All Changed:” Cyberpunk and the Baby Boom’s Rejection of Religious Institutions 232Samuel R. Smith12 Social Justice and Sexism for Adolescents: a Content Analysis of Lyrical Themes and Gender Presentations in Canadian Heavy Metal Music, 1985-1991 263Bruce K. Friesen and Warren Helfrich13 Incubus: Male Songwriters’ Portrayal of Women’s Sexuality in Pop Metal Music 286Lisa J. Sloat14 Explorations in Youth Culture. Amateur Stripping: What We Know and What We Don’t 302Thomas C. Calhoun, Julie Ann Harms Cannon and Rhonda FisherIndex 327