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Inside Subculture : The Postmodern Meaning of Style, Hardcover by Muggleton, ...

Description: Inside Subculture : The Postmodern Meaning of Style, Hardcover by Muggleton, David, ISBN 1859733476, ISBN-13 9781859733479, Like New Used, Free P&P in the UK 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.

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Book Title: Inside Subculture : The Postmodern Meaning of Style

Number of Pages: 208 Pages

Language: English

Publication Name: Inside Subculture: the Postmodern Meaning of Style

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Publication Year: 2000

Subject: Anthropology

Item Height: 234 mm

Type: Textbook

Author: David Muggleton

Series: Dress, Body, Culture

Item Width: 156 mm

Format: Hardcover

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