Subculture: The Meaning of Style

The emergence of youth subcultures has been one of the most controversial aspects of life in post-war Britain. Teddy boys, mods and rockers, skinheads and punks have all attracted an enormous amount of attention from the 'straight' world. At different times the press and public have condemned these groups as folk devils, dismissed them as clowns, and applauded them as contemporary heroes. But how is a subculture created, and what does it feel like to live inside a style as the member of a spectacular youth culture? "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