Researching Subcultures, Myth and Memory

In: Palgrave Studies in the History of Subcultures and Popular Music Ser.

Abstract

Intro -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Chapter 1: Introduction: Researching Subcultures, Myth and Memory -- Subcultural Studies -- Myth and Memory -- On the Chapters in This Volume -- Conclusion -- Section I: Conceptual Clarifications -- Chapter 2: Situating 'Subculture': On the Origins and Limits of the Term for Understanding Youth Cultures -- Youth, Subculture and Style -- Unsettled Accounts -- Reconsidering Subculture -- Situating Subculture as a Fictional Narrative -- Conclusion -- Chapter 3: Myth and Authenticity in Subculture Studies -- Myth -- Realism and the Function of Myth -- Structuralism and Myth -- The CCCS, Authenticity, and Subcultural Myth-making -- Subcultures: From Authentic Styles to Authentic Identities -- Conclusion -- Section II: Media, Myths and Subcultural Actors -- Chapter 4: Punk Legends: Cultural Representation and Ostension -- A Tale of Two 'Punks' -- Punk Villainy -- Punk Heroics -- Reading Punk Legends -- The Future of Punk (Research) -- Chapter 5: 'Bad to the Bone': The Myth and Mystique of the Motorcycle Gang -- 'Hey Johnny, What're You Rebelling Against?': The Motorcycle Gang Mythology -- Havoc at Hollister: Genesis of a Motorcycle Myth -- Motorcycle Mayhem and Moral Panic -- Black Rebels on the Silver Screen -- A 'Strange and Terrible Saga': The Rise of the Hells Angels -- 'A Bad Jolt on the Squares': The Outlaws' Allure -- Asphalt Cowboys and the Myths of the American West -- Fact, Fiction and the Development of the Motorcycle Gang -- Eternal Bad Boys: The Motorcycle Gang Mythology Endures -- Chapter 6: 'Two Baltimores' and the Conflicting Representations of Baltimore's Wild Out Wheelie Boyz -- The WoWBoyz as a Scene -- Disenfranchisement and Repressive Policing -- Mobility and Protest in East Baltimore -- The Media Politics of the WoWBoyz -- Eye in the Sky -- Conflicting Images of the WoWBoyz.