Clubcultures Reader: Implications for Innovation - Softcover

Redhead, Steve

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0631212167 ISBN 13: 9780631212164

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, 1998

Synopsis

This reader in popular cultural studies meets the need for an up-to-date collection of readings on contemporary youth cultures and youth music. From Rave to Disco and House to Northern Soul, the material gathered in this volume helps to distinguish 'popular cultural studies' from some aspects of the theoretical work of 'contemporary cultural studies'. In doing so, the important ethnographic work associated with contemporary cultural studies traditions of youth and popular culture research is consolidated, extended and applied to contemporary culture in the 1990s. Combining description and theory in a clear pedagogical framework, this will be essential reading for upper-level students following courses on population, culture, youth culture and popular music within the disciplines of cultural studies, communication studies, sociology, and media studies.

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Review

"An excellent, wide-ranging and thought-provoking collection. It genuinely breaks new ground, is much more up to date than anything else in the field, and strikes a very good balance between descriptive and theoretical material. The case studies are fascinating and sophisticated." Dr John Jervis, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kent at Canterbury

"From Punk to the politics of space in the record store, to football, popular music and democratisation, this collection of writings provides a space within which the function of popular culture can be rethought." Sophie Taysom, Social Alternatives

About the Author

Editors: Steve Redhead is co-director of the Manchester Institute for Popular Culture at the Manchester Metropolitan University, where he is a Reader in Law and Popular Culture. Derek Wynne is also co-director of the Manchester Institute for Popular Culture, where he is Senior Lecturer in Social Science and Head of Sociology. Justin O'Connor is Senior Research Fellow at the Manchester Institute for Popular Culture. Contributors: Simon Frith is Professor of English, University of Strathclyde where he is also Director of the John Logie Baird Centre for Television, Film and Popular Music. He gave the first Manchester Institute for Popular Culture annual lecture in 1993. He is author of Sound Effects (1983) and many other books and articles on popular music. Larry Grossberg is Distinguished Professor in Cultural Studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and author of numerous cultural studies books and articles, notably We've Gotta get Outta this Place (1992). He is a member of the advisory board of MIPC. Will Straw is Associate Professor in Communications, McGill University, Montreal and author of numerous articles and papers on cultural studies, film theory and popular culture. He is member of the advisory board of MIPC. Bev Best is a postgraduate student in the School of Communication, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada and worked with Steve Redhead when he was Visiting Professor at SFI in 1994. Cressida Miles is a postgraduate student at the University of Lancaster. She has attended the MIPC seminar since 1992. Adam Brown is a former postgraduate student at MIPC and a author of a number of papers in democratization and the regulation of music and football. Simon Reynolds is a freelance journalist who has given papers to MIPC seminars, and helped supervise some of its postgraduate students. He is author of Blissed Out (1992) and The Sex Revolts (1995). Marek Kohn is a freelance writer who has spoken at the MIPC seminar and has written Narcomania (1989) and Dope Girls (1992). Ted Polhemus is a freelance writer and broadcaster who has spoken at the MIPC seminar. He is author of many books including Streetstyle (1994). Kate Mileston is Lecturer in Cultural Studies in the Crewe and Alsager Faculty, the Manchester Metropolitan University, and a former postgraduate student at MIPC and author of a number of papers on pop production, consumption and regulation. Joanne Hollows is a Lecturer at Trinity and All Saints College, Leeds and has collaborated with Milestone. Paul Cons is the creator of the celebrated Flesh gay night at the Hacienda in Manchester. David Muggleton is a postgraduate student at the University of Lancaster who has attended MIPC seminars since 1993. Steve Jones is Associate Professor and Head of Communication, University of Tulsa and author of many articles on popular music and communication including the book Cybersociety (1995). He is a member of the advisory board of MIPC.

About this edition

• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0631212167
• ISBN 13: 9780631212164
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 260