The concept of 'subculture' has long been of significant importance in research on youth, style, deviance and popular culture. Although in more recent years subculture has been the subject of sustained critique, it still provides a valuable point of reference for study and research. This text offers students an up-to-date and wide-ranging account of new developments in youth culture research that reject, refine or reinvent the concept of subculture. Bringing together key theoretical statements with illuminating analyzes of particular aspects of youth culture - popular music, clubbing, body modification, the internet, etc. - this is an ideal introduction to a diverse and wide-ranging field.

Introduction; A.Bennett & K.Kahn-Harris SECTION 1: THEORETICAL READINGS Culture, Subculture and Social Organisation; P.J.Martin Fragmented Culture and Subcultures; D.Chaney SECTION 2: EMPIRICAL STUDIES 'It's Like Canada Reduced': Setting the Scene in Montreal; G.Stahl Dance Nations: Rethinking Youth Subcultural Theory; B.Carrington & B.Wilson Tourists and Travellers? 'Subcultures', Reflexive Identities and Neo-Tribal Sociality; P.Sweetman Teenage Girls' 'Bedroom Culture': Codes Versus Zones; S.Lincoln Unspectacular Subculture?: Transgression and Mundanity in the Global Extreme Metal Scene; K.Kahn-Harris Youth Strategies for Glocal Living: Space, Power and Communication in Everyday Cultural Practice; H.Pilkington The Goth Scene and (Sub)Cultural Substance; P.Hodkinson Buffy Night at the Seven Stars: A 'Subcultural' Happening at the 'Glocal' Level; G.Bloustien Virtual Subculture? Youth, Identity and the Internet; A.Bennett Afterword; S.Frith Bibliography Index.