Researching Subcultures, Myth and Memory

Produktbeschreibung

This book brings together contributions that analyse how subcultural myths develop and how they can be studied. Through critical engagement with (history) writing and other sources on subcultures by contemporaries, veterans, popular media and researchers, it aims to establish: how stories and histories of subcultures emerge and become canonized through the process of mythification; which developments and actors are crucial in this process; and finally how researchers like historians, sociologists, and anthropologists should deal with these myths and myth-making processes. By considering these issues and questions in relation to mythmaking, this book provides new insights on how to research the identity, history, and cultural memory of youth subcultures. 

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction: Researching Subcultures, Myth and Memory- Bart van der Steen
andThierry P.F. Verburgh.- Part I: Conceptual Clarifications.- 2. Situating
'Subculture': On the Origins and Limits of The term for Understanding Youth
Cultures- Andy Bennett.- 3. Myth and Authenticity in Subculture Studies- J.
Patrick Williams.- 4. Punk Legends: Cultural Representation and Ostension-
Jeffrey Debies-Carl.- 5. 'Bad to the Bone' The Myth and Mystique of the
Motorcycle Gang- Bill Osgerby.- 6. 'Two Baltimores' and the Conflicting
Representations of Baltimore's Wild Out Wheelie Boyz- Glen Wood.- Part II:
Subcultural Myth and Memory.- 7. Remembering Andre 'Angel' Melendez: Rave
Subculture's Contested/Conflicted Memory of a Racially Motivated Murder- Yamil
Avivi García.- 8. 'From the Dark Past': The Contested Historiography of Violence
in Norwegian Black Metal- Ross Hagen.- 9. Between Revolution and the Market: Bob
Marley and the Cultural Politicsof the Youth Icon- Jeremy Prestholdt.- Part III:
Punk, Personal and Subcultural Memory.- 10. Memories of Being Punk in West
Germany: Personal and Shared Recollections in Life Stories- Knud Andresen.- 11.
Mapping Subcultures from Scratch: Moving Beyond the Mythology of Dutch
Post-Punk- Richard Foster.- 12. Imagining and Performing Marginalization: Hip
Hop and the Arab Spring of 2011- Igor Johannsen.- 13. 'Soaking up the
Punky-Funky All-Feel of Eastern Kreuzberg': Myth-Making, Preference
Construction, and Youth Cultures- Thierry P.F. Verburgh. 

Autoreninfo

Bart van der Steen is University Lecturer at Leiden University's Institute of History, the Netherlands. His previous book with Palgrave, A European Youth Revolt: European Perspectives on Youth Protest and Social Movements in the 1980s, published in 2016.

Thierry P.F. Verburgh is research coordinator of the Center for Applied Research of the Faculty of Digital Media and Creative Industries at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (AUAS), the Netherlands. His research focuses on the social interactions and epistemology (e.g. perceived reality, myth-making, and fundamentalism) of youth cultures, generations, and social movements.