Inside Subculture: The Postmodern Meaning of Style by David Muggleton (English)

Description: Inside Subculture by David Muggleton By listening to the voices of the subcultural stylists themselves - their subjective perceptions of their style and the ideas that lie behind them - the author provides insights into issues of subjectivity and identity. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description What motivates people to dress in a manner that marks them out as different to the conventional norm? Is it true that, with dress, anything goes in our mix-and-match postmodern culture? Have easily recognizable, authentic subcultures imploded in a glut of ironic revivals and stylistic fragmentation? Does this supposed post-subcultural generation actively celebrate ephemerality, transience and disposability, merely casting off and trying on one alternative identity after another in an ever-accelerating fashion frenzy? This exciting book is a considered sociological examination of such questions. By listening to the voices of the subcultural stylists themselves - their subjective perceptions of their style and the ideas that lie behind them - the author provides original insights into issues of subjectivity and identity. Situating an empirical case study within a wider consideration of postmodernism and cultural change, the author rejects cultural studies perspectives that attempt to read subcultures as texts. Drawing on extensive interviews with people who dress in what might be deemed a stylistically unconventional manner, he seeks instead to establish whether contemporary subcultures display modern or postmodern sensibilities and forms. He argues persuasively that they do both - a stress on postmodern hyperindividualism, fluidity and fragmentation runs alongside a modernist emphasis on authenticity and underlying essence. He concludes that a Romantic libertarianism has permeated working-class culture and that the distinction between individualistic middle-class countercultures and collectivist working-class subcultures has been over-emphasized. Notes Also available in paperback, 9781859733523 GBP16.99 (April, 2002) Author Biography David Muggleton is Senior Lecturer in Sociology, University College Chichester. Review Highly recommended for academic libraries.Library JournalInterview excerpts provide powerful illustrations of some of the points made on identification and dress style, and the book is also commendably thorough in its fieldwork details; the interview schedule in particular makes it a book that could be recommended as background reading to students on research methods courses as well.Times Higher Education SupplementHighly recommended for academic libraries. -- DAndrew Brodie Smith, Martin Luther King Memorial Library, Washington, DC * Library Journal * Promotional Also available in paperback, 9781859733523 GBP16.99 (April, 2002) Review Quote Interview excerpts provide powerful illustrations of some of the points made on identification and dress style, and the book is also commendably thorough in its fieldwork details; the interview schedule in particular makes it a book that could be recommended as background reading to students on research methods courses as well. Description for Bookstore What motivates people to dress in a manner that marks them out as different to the conventional norm? Is it true that, with dress, anything goes in our mix-and-match postmodern culture? Have easily recognizable, authentic subcultures imploded in a glut of ironic revivals and stylistic fragmentation? Does this supposed post-subcultural generation actively celebrate ephemerality, transience and disposability, merely casting off and trying on one alternative identity after another in an ever-accelerating fashion frenzy? This exciting book is a considered sociological examination of such questions. By listening to the voices of the subcultural stylists themselves - their subjective perceptions of their style and the ideas that lie behind them - the author provides original insights into issues of subjectivity and identity. Situating an empirical case study within a wider consideration of postmodernism and cultural change, the author rejects cultural studies perspectives that attempt to read subcultures as texts. Drawing on extensive interviews with people who dress in what might be deemed a stylistically unconventional manner, he seeks instead to establish whether contemporary subcultures display modern or postmodern sensibilities and forms. He argues persuasively that they do both - a stress on postmodern hyperindividualism, fluidity and fragmentation runs alongside a modernist emphasis on authenticity and underlying essence. He concludes that a Romantic libertarianism has permeated working-class culture and that the distinction between individualistic middle-class countercultures and collectivist working-class subcultures has been over-emphasized. Details ISBN1859733476 Author David Muggleton Short Title INSIDE SUBCULTURE Language English ISBN-10 1859733476 ISBN-13 9781859733479 Media Book Format Hardcover Year 2000 Imprint Berg Publishers Subtitle The Postmodern Meaning of Style Country of Publication United Kingdom DEWEY 306.1 Place of Publication London DOI 10.1604/9781859733479 UK Release Date 2000-04-01 NZ Release Date 2000-04-01 Translator Fred Robertson Edited by Elena Zaytseva Birth 1868 Death 1936 Affiliation Winchester College, UK Position Classics Teacher Qualifications R.N., B.S.N., Ocn Pages 208 Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Series Dress, Body, Culture Publication Date 2000-04-01 Illustrations 13 b/w illustrations, bibliography, index Audience General AU Release Date 2010-08-31 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:11854144;

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