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Introduction: Youth Culture and the Media: Global Perspectives -- The Rise of the Teenage Media Market: Youth, Consumption, and Entertainment in the Twentieth Century -- Millennials and the Media: Youth, Communication, and Consumption in the Early Twenty-First Century -- Media Representations of Youth: Pathologies, Panaceas, and Moral Panics -- Media Effects and Youth: A Crucible of Controversy -- Young People and Media Consumption: From Mass Culture to Subcultures, 'Resistance' and Beyond -- Media Industries, Globalisation, and the International Youth Market -- Global Media, Local Youth Cultures, and Hybridity -- Youth Culture, Identity, and Creativity in the Age of Digital Media -- Conclusion: Youth, Media, and 'Circuits of Culture'.

This book brings together historians, sociologists and social scientists to examine aspects of youth culture. The book's themes are riots, music and gangs, connecting spectacular expression of youthful disaffection with everyday practices. By so doing, Youth Culture and Social Change maps out new ways of historicizing responses to economic and social change: public unrest and popular culture. .--

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.

This collection takes its inspiration from Paul Goodman's Growing Up Absurd, a landmark critique of American culture at the end of the 1950s. The contributors to this volume focus on adverse social conditions that confront young people in postmodernity, such as the relentless pressure to consume, social dis-investment in education, harsh responses to youth crime, and the continuing climate of intolerance that falls heavily on the young. In essays on education, youth crime, counseling, protest movements, fiction, identity-formation and popular culture, the contributors look for moments of resistance to the subsumption of youth culture under the logic of global capitalism.

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