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This article considers the increasing importance of personal, individualized spaces in the lives and identities of young people through a comparative examination of the contemporary use of the physical space of the bedroom and the 'virtual' territory of the online journal. Particularly popular among those in their teens and early twenties, online journals constitute an interactive form of web log whose content tends to be dominated by reflections upon the everyday experiences, thought and emotions of their individual owner. We propose here that such online journals often take on for their users the symbolic and practical properties of individually owned and controlled space — something we illustrate through a comparison with young people's uses of the primary, individual-centred, physical space in their lives — the bedroom. This discussion is informed by research by each of the authors, on young people's bedrooms and on the use of online journals respectively. The article identifies and explores understandings and functions of these two spaces for young people, identifying a number of apparent similarities in their use. Through doing so, we illustrate the potential value of the bedroom as a prism through which to understand online journal use at the same time as helping to illuminate the general significance of personal space to the lives and identities of contemporary young people.

Section I: Theories and Debates -- 1. Hebdige, Punk and the Post-Subcultural Meaning of Style- Andy Bennett -- 2. Scavenger and Bricoleur: A critical analysis of Dick Hebdige's repurposing of subculture through the intersection of biography and history- Shane Blackman -- 3. Resuscitating the Subcultural Corpse: A reflection on subculture as lived experience and the importance of class and ethnicity!- Peter Webb -- 4. The Scholar and the Punk: Hebdige's master narrative and the deceptive self-knowledge of the subaltern- Pete Dale -- Section II: Others, Absence and Identity -- 5. Where the (Untypical) Girls Are: Inscribing women's experiences into Dick Hebdige's Subculture: The Meaning of Style- Christine Feldman -- 6. Syncretic Youth: The phantom legacy of Hebdige's Subculture: The Meaning of Style- Rehan Hyder -- Section III: Hebdige and Contemporary Subcultures -- 7. On the Meaning of Style: Black Metal's Black- Edia Connole -- 8. There and Back Again: Linking online and offline spaces in/of Czech emo subculture- Martin Heřmanský -- 9. Under-Connected: Youth subcultures, resistance and sociability in the Internet age- Paula Guerra -- 10. 'Can you really get away with that at work?': Recent experiences of teaching and learning Hebdige- Lucy Robinson and Chris Warne -- 11. An interview with Dick Hebdige- The Subcultures Network.

Let's spend the night together explores how sex and sexuality provided essential elements of British youth culture in the 1950s through to the 1980s. It shows how the underlying sexual charge of rock 'n'roll – and pop music more generally – was integral to the broader challenge embodied in the youth cultures that developed after World War Two. As teenage hormones rushed to move to the music and take advantage of the spaces opening up through consumption, education and employment, so the boundaries of British morality and cultural propriety were tested and often transgressed. Be it the assertive masculinity of the teds or the lustful longings of the teeny-bopper, the gender-bending of glam or the subterranean allure of an underground club/disco, the free love of the 1960s or the punk provocations in the 1970s, sex was forever to the fore and, more often than not, underpinned the moral panics that fitfully followed any cultural shift in youthful style and behaviour. Drawing from scholarship across a range of disciplines, the Subcultures Network explore how sex and sexuality were experienced, presented, conferred, responded to and understood within the context of youth culture, popular music and social change in the period between World War Two and the advent of AIDS. The essays locate sex, music and youth culture in the context of post-war Britain: with a widening and ever-more prevalent media; amidst the loosening bonds of censorship; in a society shaped by changing patterns of consumption and the emergence of the 'teenager'; existing, as Jeff Nuttall famously argued, under the shadow of the (nuclear) bomb