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A classic of British cultural studies, Profane Culture takes the reader into the worlds of two important 1960s youth cultures-the motor-bike boys and the hippies. The motor-bike boys were working-class motorcyclists who listened to the early rock ''n'' roll of the late 1950s. In contrast, the hippies were middle-class drug users with long hair and a love of progressive music. Both groups were involved in an unequal but heroic fight to produce meaning and their own cultural forms in the face of a larger society dominated by the capitalist media and commercialism. They were pioneers of cultural

Ch. 1. An Introduction to Cultural Studies -- Ch. 2. Questions of Culture and Ideology -- Ch. 3. Culture, Meaning, Knowledge: The linguistic Turn in Cultural Studies -- Ch. 4. Biology, The Body and Culture -- Ch. 5. A New World Disorder? -- Ch. 6. Enter Postmodernism -- Ch. 7. Issues of Subjectivity and Identity -- Ch. 8. Ethnicity, Race and Nation -- Ch. 9. Sex, Subjectivity and Representation -- Ch. 10. Television, Texts and Audiences -- Ch. 11. Digital Media Culture -- Ch. 12. Cultural Space and Urban Place -- Ch. 13. Youth, Style and Resistance -- Ch. 14. Cultural Politics and Cultural Policy