The concept of 'subculture' has long been of significant importance in research on youth, style, deviance and popular culture. 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.

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.

GERRY BLOUSTIEN Senior Lecturer and Program Director in Communication, Culture and Media at the University of South Australia BEN CARRINGTON Lecturer in Sociology and Cultural Studies at the University of Brighton DAVID CHANEY Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Durham SIMON FRITH Professor of Film and Media at the University of Stirling PAUL HODKINSON Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Surrey SIAN LINCOLN Recently completed her PhD thesis in the Department of Sociology at Manchester Metropolitan University PETER J. MARTIN Dean of Undergraduate Studies in the Faculty of Social Sciences and Law at the University of Manchester HILARY PILKINGTON Director of the Centre for Russian and East European Studies at the University of Birmingham GEOFF STAHL Currently pursuing post-doctoral work at Humboldt University in Berlin PAUL SWEETMAN Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Southampton BRIAN WILSON Assistant Professor in the School of Human Kinetics at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

Combines new and cutting edge research with contributions from well-respected names in the field Provides an overview of the concept of 'subculture' and its influence on youth and popular culture, while also pushing forward debates in the area An extremely cohesive and welledited collection which will be ideal as a core course textbook.