The Post-Subcultures Reader

Once it was just Mods and Rockers or Hippies and Skinheads. Now we have Riot Grrls and Rappers; Modern Primitives and Metalheads; Goths, Clubcultures and Fetishists; Urban Tribes, New Age Travelers and Internet fan groups. It is - unsurprisingly - becoming increasingly difficult to pinpoint exactly what "subculture" actually means. The Post-Subcultures Reader is the first book to reconsider the use of this term.

Is it possible to work within its existing limitations? Can we reformulate outdated notions of this expression to make it applicable to the twenty-first century? And to what extent does this involve the challenging of past orthodoxies about spectacular subcultural styles? From Seattle anarchist punks to U.K.

Asian underground music, Canadian female X-Files fans to Australian dance cultures, this groundbreaking book draws on a wide variety of international case studies to shed light on the new relationships among youth, subcultural music, politics, and taste.