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Subculture (New Accents) 1st Edition
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'Hebdige's Subculture: The Meaning of Style is so important: complex and remarkably lucid, it's the first book dealing with punk to offer intellectual content. Hebdige [...] is concerned with the UK's postwar, music-centred, white working-class subcultures, from teddy boys to mods and rockers to skinheads and punks.' - Rolling Stone
With enviable precision and wit Hebdige has addressed himself to a complex topic - the meanings behind the fashionable exteriors of working-class youth subcultures - approaching them with a sophisticated theoretical apparatus that combines semiotics, the sociology of devience and Marxism and come up with a very stimulating short book - Time Out
This book is an attempt to subject the various youth-protest movements of Britain in the last 15 years to the sort of Marxist, structuralist, semiotic analytical techniques propagated by, above all, Roland Barthes. The book is recommended whole-heartedly to anyone who would like fresh ideas about some of the most stimulating music of the rock era - The New York Times
- ISBN-100415039495
- ISBN-13978-0415039499
- Edition1st
- Publication dateJanuary 1, 1979
- LanguageEnglish
- Dimensions5.08 x 0.47 x 7.8 inches
- Print length208 pages
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- Publisher : Routledge; 1st edition (January 1, 1979)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 208 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0415039495
- ISBN-13 : 978-0415039499
- Item Weight : 7.2 ounces
- Dimensions : 5.08 x 0.47 x 7.8 inches
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Dick Hebdige’s book appeared in 1979 and became one of the bestsellers of Cultural Studies. Hebdige heavily relies upon the Birmingham CCCS anthology “Resisting through Rituals – Youth Subculture in Post-Britain” (1975). Hebdige starts with an analysis of Reggae and Rastafarianism in the West-Indian community in London. He then portrays white working class youth subcultures such as the teddy boys, skinheads and punks. He describes subcultures as a series of responses to the presence in Britain of a sizeable black community. But there is a large difference between the 1975 CCCS anthology and Hebdige’s 1979 book. Actually Hebdige has received the theory of structuralism, particularly the works of Lévi-Strauss and the younger Roland Barthes. Hebdige confirms the definition of culture as “coded exchange of reciprocal messages” and Style as a “signifying practice”. There are also the first repercussions of Louis Althusser’s Structuralist Marxism, when Hebdige talks about ideology of the way of perceiving other groups as well as one’s own group.
But how are subcultural styles created? Hebdige uses Lévi-Strauss’ concept of “bricolage”. Prominent forms of discourse, particularly fashion, are adapted, subverted and extended by the subcultural bricoleur. The teddy boys for example take and transform the Edwardian style and create something new out of it. Punk takes dancing and turns it into a dumb show of blank robots.
For the hegemonic system subcultures are “noise” and constitute breaches in expectations. These breaches are accompanied by hysteria in the press. The subcultural stylist gives the lie to what Althusser called the false obviousness of everyday practice. Hebdige introduces Gramsci’s notion of hegemony and argues subcultures are a challenge to hegemony.
Hebdige describes how spectacular subcultural styles are incorporated by the system. Signs such as dress and music are conversed into mass produced objects. Youth culture styles may begin by issuing symbolic changes but then must inevitably end by establishing a new set of conventions, new industries or rejuvenating old industries. There is a process from the subculture to the fashion market.
It is important to establish that Hebdige does not believe class has disappeared. Class did not disappear in Britain after WWII, but the forms in which the experience of class found expression in culture, did change dramatically with the advent of mass media, changes in the constitution of the family, in the organization of school and in the relative status of work and leisure. These changes served to fragment and polarize the working-class community and strengthen the role of the mass media. The development of a youth culture should be seen as part of this process of polarization of the working-class community. The increase in the spending powers of the working class youth, the creation of a market and changes in the education system led to the emergence of a generational consciousness amongst the young. Hebdige argues with several sociologists that youth is not classless.