{"product_id":"the-clubcultures-reader-isbn-9780631212164","title":"The Clubcultures Reader","description":"This reader in popular cultural studies meets the need for an up-to-date collection of readings on contemporary youth cultures and youth music.  About the Authors. \u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Reading Pop(ular) Cult(ural) Stud(ie)s: Steve Redhead.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I: Theory I:\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. Pearls and Swine: Intellectuals and the Mass Media: Simon Frith and Jon Savage.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. Over-the-Counter Culture: Retheorising Resistance in Popular Culture: Beverly Best.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II: Commentaries\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. Organised Disorder: The Changing Space of the Record Shop: Will Straw.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. Spatial Politics: A Gendered Sense of Place: Cressida Miles.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5. Let's All Have a Disco? Football, Popular Music and Democratisation: Adam Brown.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6. Rave Culture: Living Dream or Living Death?: Simon Reynolds.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7. Fear and Lothing in Wisconsin: Sarah Champion.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8. The House Sound of Chicago: Hillegonda Rietveld.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9. Cocaine Girls: Marek Kohn.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10. In the Supermarket of Style: Ted Polhemus.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11. Love Factory: The Sites, Practices and Media Relationships of Northern Soul: Kate Milestone.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12. DJ Culture: Dave Haslam.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePlates: Patrick Henry.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III: Theory II:\u003c\/b\u003e .\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13. The Post-Subculturalist: David Muggleton.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14. Reading Pop: The Press, the Scholar and the Consequences of Popular Cultural Studies: Steve Jones.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15. Re-placing Popular Culture: Lawrence Grossberg.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex.\u003c\/p\u003e  \"An excellent, wide-ranging and thought-provoking collection. It genuinely breaks new ground, is much more up to date than anything else in the field, and strikes a very good balance between descriptive and theoretical material. The case studies are fascinating and sophisticated.\" \u003ci\u003eDr John Jervis, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kent at Canterbury\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"From Punk to the politics of space in the record store, to football, popular music and democratisation, this collection of writings provides a space within which the function of popular culture can be rethought.\" \u003ci\u003eSophie Taysom, Social Alternatives\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  Editors:\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eSteve Redhead\u003c\/b\u003e is co-director of the Manchester Institute for Popular Culture at the Manchester Metropolitan University, where he is a Reader in Law and Popular Culture.  \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eDerek Wynne\u003c\/b\u003e is also co-director of the Manchester Institute for Popular Culture, where he is Senior Lecturer in Social Science and Head of Sociology.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJustin O'Connor\u003c\/b\u003e is Senior Research Fellow at the Manchester Institute for Popular Culture.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eContributors:\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eSimon Frith\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of English, University of Strathclyde where he is also Director of the John Logie Baird Centre for Television, Film and Popular Music. He gave the first Manchester Institute for Popular Culture annual lecture in 1993. He is author of \u003ci\u003eSound Effects\u003c\/i\u003e (1983) and many other books and articles on popular music.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eLarry Grossberg\u003c\/b\u003e is Distinguished Professor in Cultural Studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and author of numerous cultural studies books and articles, notably \u003ci\u003eWe've Gotta get Outta this Place\u003c\/i\u003e (1992). He is a member of the advisory board of MIPC.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eWill Straw\u003c\/b\u003e is Associate Professor in Communications, McGill University, Montreal and author of numerous articles and papers on cultural studies, film theory and popular culture. He is member of the advisory board of MIPC.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eBev Best\u003c\/b\u003e is a postgraduate student in the School of Communication, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada and worked with Steve Redhead when he was Visiting Professor at SFI in 1994.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eCressida Miles\u003c\/b\u003e is a postgraduate student at the University of Lancaster. She has attended the MIPC seminar since 1992.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eAdam Brown\u003c\/b\u003e is a former postgraduate student at MIPC and a author of a number of papers in democratization and the regulation of music and football.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eSimon Reynolds\u003c\/b\u003e is a freelance journalist who has given papers to MIPC seminars, and helped supervise some of its postgraduate students. He is author of \u003ci\u003eBlissed Out\u003c\/i\u003e (1992) and \u003ci\u003eThe Sex Revolts\u003c\/i\u003e (1995).\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eMarek Kohn\u003c\/b\u003e is a freelance writer who has spoken at the MIPC seminar and has written \u003ci\u003eNarcomania\u003c\/i\u003e (1989) and \u003ci\u003eDope Girls\u003c\/i\u003e (1992).\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eTed Polhemus\u003c\/b\u003e is a freelance writer and broadcaster who has spoken at the MIPC seminar. He is author of many books including \u003ci\u003eStreetstyle\u003c\/i\u003e (1994).\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eKate Mileston\u003c\/b\u003e is Lecturer in Cultural Studies in the Crewe and Alsager Faculty, the Manchester Metropolitan University, and a former postgraduate student at MIPC and author of a number of papers on pop production, consumption and regulation.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eJoanne Hollows\u003c\/b\u003e is a Lecturer at Trinity and All Saints College, Leeds and has collaborated with Milestone.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePaul Cons\u003c\/b\u003e is the creator of the celebrated \u003ci\u003eFlesh\u003c\/i\u003e gay night at the Hacienda in Manchester.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eDavid Muggleton\u003c\/b\u003e is a postgraduate student at the University of Lancaster who has attended MIPC seminars since 1993.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eSteve Jones\u003c\/b\u003e is Associate Professor and Head of Communication, University of Tulsa and author of many articles on popular music and communication including the book \u003ci\u003eCybersociety\u003c\/i\u003e (1995). He is a member of the advisory board of MIPC.\u003c\/p\u003e  This \u003ci\u003eReader\u003c\/i\u003e in popular cultural studies meets the need for an up-to-date collection of readings on contemporary youth cultures and youth music. From Rave to Disco and House to Northern Soul, the material gathered in this volume helps to distinguish \"popular cultural studies\" from some aspects of the theoretical work of \"contemporary cultural studies\". In doing so, the important ethnographic work associated with contemporary cultural studies traditions of youth and popular culture research is consolidated, extended and applied to contemporary culture in the 1990s.  \u003cp\u003eCombining description and theory in a clear pedagogical framework, this will be essential reading for upper-level students following courses on population, culture, youth culture and popular music within the disciplines of Cultural Studies, Communication Studies, Sociology, and Media Studies.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47990188933349,"sku":"NP9780631212164","price":39.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780631212164.jpg?v=1761786845","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-clubcultures-reader-isbn-9780631212164","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}