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: HISTORYYouth on the Road: Reflections on the History of Tramping - Judith AdlerFrom Counterculture to Consumer Culture Vespa and the Italian Youth Market, 1958–78 - Adam ArvidssonThe Re-Invention of Bhangra: Social Change and Aesthetic Shifts in a Punjabi Music in Britain - Gerd BaumannJipis, Pijos, Fiesteros: Studies on Youth Cultures in Spain 1960–2004 - Carles Fexia Pàmpols and Laura PorzioFrom Jukebox Boys to Revolting Students: Richard Hoggart and the Study of British Youth Culture - David FowlerThe Emergence of a Modern Youth Culture: The Swedish 1930s - Mats FranzénThe Hippies: An American “Moment” - Stuart Hall“Ducktails, Flick-Knives and Pugnacity”: Subcultural and Hegemonic Masculinities in South Africa, 1948–1960 - Katie MooneyFrom 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. RosenstoneDiversity of Experience, Experience of Diversity: Turkish Migrant Youth Culture in Berlin - Levent SoysantBodgies and Widgies – Youth Cultures in the 1950s - Jon StrattonBeyond the Skinheads: Comments on the Emergence and Significance of the Glamrock Cult - Ian Taylor and David WallShaping 1960s Youth in Britain and France: Fabulous and Salut les copains - Chris TinkerHot 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. WoodVOLUME TWO: STYLESubcultures or Neo-Tribes? Rethinking the Relationship between Youth, Style and Musical Taste - Andy BennettYouth Subcultural Theory: A Critical Engagement with the Concept, Its Origins and Politics, from the Chicago School to Postmodernism - Shane BlackmanYouth and Cultural Practice - Mary BucholtzThe Struggle for Ethnicity: Swedish Youth Styles and the Construction of Ethnic Identities - Erling BjurströmConsuming the Car: Anticipation, Use and Meaning in Contemporary Youth Culture - Eamonn Carrabine and Brian LonghurstDefending Ski-Jumpers: A Critique of Theories of Youth Subcultures - Gary ClarkeReview: Badges of Half-Formed, Inarticulate Radicalism: A Critique of Recent Trends in the Study of Working Class Youth Culture - Chris WatersTribal Aspects of Postmodern Consumption Research: The Case of French In-line Roller Skaters - Bernard Cova and Véronique CovaReal Punks and Pretenders: The Social Organisation of a Counterculture - Kathryn Joan FoxIsraeli Youth Body Adornments: Between Protest and Conformity - Yehuda Jacobson and Diana LuzzattoGraffiti as Career and Ideology - Richard LachmannSubculture, Style and Chavs and Consumer Capitalism: Towards a Critical Cultural Criminology of Youth - Greg MartinSettling Accounts with Youth Subcultures: A Feminist Critique - Angela McRobbieShut Up and Dance: Youth Culture and Changing Modes of Femininity - Angela McRobbieU.S. Feminism-Grrrl Style! Youth (Sub)Cultures and the Technologics of the Third Wave - Ednie Kaeh GarrisonRules of Rebellion: Slamdancing, Moshing, and the American Alternative Scene - William TsitsosVOLUME THREE: MUSICHip Hop Am Main: The Localisation of Rap Music and Hip Hop Culture - Andy BennettPunks Not Dead: The Significance of Punk Rock for an Older Generation of Fans - Andy BennettPop 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 FrithAnother Boring Day in Paradise - Lawrence GrossbergThe ‘Failure’ of Youth Culture: Reflexivity, Music and Politics in the Black Metal Scene - Keith Kahn-HarrisSubcultural Identity in Alternative Music Culture - Holly KruseInto the “Jungle” - Benjamin NoysSwedish Youth and Music: Listening Patterns and Motivations - Keith RoeThe Power of Love: Raï Music and Youth in Algeria - Marc Schade-PoulsenYouth Culture and the Making of the Post-Fordist Econony: Dance Music in Contemporary Britain - Richard J. Smith and Tim MaughanWhy Doesn’t Anybody Write Anything about Glam Rock - Jon StrattonSystems of Articulation, Logics of Change: Communities and Scenes in Popular Music - Will StrawBreakdance, Red Eyed Penguins, Vikings, Grunge and Straight Rock ’n’ Roll: The Construction of Place in Musical Discourse in Rudenga, East Side Oslo - Viggo VestelJust a Girl? Rock Music, Feminism, and the Cultural Construction of Female Youth - Gayle WaldYouth Culture, Music, and Cell Phone Branding in China - Jing WangVOLUME FOUR: MEDIAAdolescents’ Uses of Media for Self-Socialization - Jeffrey Jensen ArnettVirtual Subculture? Youth, Identity and the Internet - Andy BennettDigital Participation at the Margins: Online Circuits of Rap Music by Portuguese Afro-Descendant Youth - Ricardo Campos and José Alberton Simões“Where My Girls At?” Negotiating Black Womanhood in Music Videos - Rana A. EmersonBeyond the Myth of the “Cyberkid”: Young People at the Margins of the Information Revolution - Keri Facer and Ruth FurlongSymbiotic Transformations: Youth, Global Media and Indigenous Culture in Malta - Joe GrixtiOnline Journals as Virtual Bedrooms: Young People, Identity and Personal Space - Paul Hodkinson and Sian LincolnMusic Television and the Invention of Youth Culture in India - Vamsee JuluriInteractive 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 NaamanRethinking ‘Moral Panic’ for Multi-Mediated Social Worlds - Angela McRobbie and Sarah L. ThorntonMy Tribe: Post-subcultural Manifestations of Belonging on Social Network Sites - Brady Robards and Andy BennettYouth Culture, Media and Globalization Processes in Greenland - Jette RygaardThe Rise of a “Me Culture” in Postsocialist China: Youth, Individualism and Identity Creation in the Blogosphere - Yangzi Sima and Peter C. PugsleyAuthentic Identities: Straightedge Subculture, Music, and the Internet - J. Patrick WilliamsRave and Straightedge, the Virtual and the Real: Exploring Online and Offline Experiences in Canadian Youth Subcultures - Brian Wilson and Michael Atkinson