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Subculture: The Meaning of Style (New Accents) (Paperback)

by Dick Hebdige (Author) "The chic thing is to dress in expensive tailor-made rags and all the queens are camping about in wild-boy drag..." (more)
Key Phrases: teddy boy style, spectacular subcultures, punk subculture, West Indian, Great Britain, Sex Pistols (more...)

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"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

Hebdiges Subculture: The Meaning of Style is so important: complex and remarkably lucid, its the first book dealing with punk to offer intellectual content. Hebdige [...] is concerned with the UKs 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

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`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

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Paperback: 208 pages
Publisher: Routledge; 1 edition (March 10, 1981)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0415039495
ISBN-13: 978-0415039499
Product Dimensions: 7.2 x 4.9 x 0.5 inches
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Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (10 customer reviews)

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teddy boy style, spectacular subcultures, punk subculture, subcultural style, punk style, teddy boys, parent culture, youth styles, punk groups, focal concerns, glam rock

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West Indian, Great Britain, Sex Pistols, Stuart Hall, West Indies, Phil Cohen, Resistance Through Rituals, Richard Hell, George Melly, King's Road, New Musical Express, Roland Barthes

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5.0 out of 5 stars Art Primer, February 5, 2002

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This book is fundmentally the the bases for anyone who is studying art theory. This books goes into how subcultures like the punk movement to hip hop and gang cultures got started and why they are important to understanding diverse social structures.

Althought this book is small it is not an easy read. I read this book four or five time before things started to sink in. After finishing this book I felt more prepared for the art going experience.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Enjoyable insight into postwar subcultures, July 8, 1999

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From mods to rastafarians this books covers the history and social significance of them all. Although heavy at the start the book levels out at a nice factual tempo providing meaning to every subculture youth movent interlinking them and weaving them with the music scene. There are a few gaps, perhaps due to lack of knowledge, which I believe are significant but have been left out. Worth a read if you are intrested in fasion, youth, sociological research or music.

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4.0 out of 5 stars fun, interesting, complex, August 14, 2003

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this book takes an awesome and serious look at punk as a social and cultural phenomenon, and examines the roots that made punk into what it was. it is a very enlightening read, but is the kind of book you must read in the front and the back at the same time to have it all sink in. hebdige uses a number of endnotes throughout the book, which made me have to jump back and forth to understand what he was saying. i think a second reading would provide an even deeper understanding-- there were definitely times on the first read when i had to reread passages. i definitely recommend this book and have greatly enjoyed it.

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5.0 out of 5 stars subculture
Book was in very good condition, but I have to say that I ordered and paid for a overnight service ($17.00)and I got my book five days latter...not acceptable. Read more

Published 8 months ago by Roger De Los Santos

3.0 out of 5 stars tough read, but worth it
This book is written in a very academic style, so the 200 pages seems like 500. Other than that, it's a decent primer on semiotics.

Published 20 months ago by Sheldon Kessel

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Resource
Hebdige's book is an excellent text that is enjoyable and informative to read. It is academic and poetic all at once, mirroring certain aspects of the self-conscious scene he... Read more

Published on March 14, 2006 by D. Pacifico

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Professor Hebdige is a genius, and contrary to the other review he immersed himself in "this scene." He grew up right in the middle of the movement in England and witnessed... Read more

Published on April 4, 2005 by David Wallis

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Published on October 1, 2003 by Teresa J. Nunes

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I've read other books in the same vein like Neil Nehring's "Flowers in the Dustbin", but this book deserves respect as one of the first books to deal with punk seriously as a... Read more

Published on January 12, 2000

5.0 out of 5 stars An excellently vivid portrayal of London subcultures.
Dick Hebdige provides unparalled insight to the the United Kingdom's subcultures. If you're interested in the mods or skinheads, check it out!

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