Contemporary Youth Culture - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Contemporary Youth Culture write by Shirley R. Steinberg. This book was released on 2006. Contemporary Youth Culture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An international and inter-disciplinary roster of experts shed light by exploring such topics as hip hop culture; punk culture; social justice movements; video games and others.
Contemporary Youth Culture
Contemporary Youth Culture - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Contemporary Youth Culture write by Shirley R. Steinberg. This book was released on 2006. Contemporary Youth Culture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Youth as a unique group is a 20th century idea. The changes wrought worldwide by WWII, propelled adolescence to a status and identity that coincided with unparalleled economic growth. While developmental psychologists refined their theories of normal growth and maturation, society and the media were at work constructing youth as consumers, thereby liberating them from traditional family controls. An increasingly smaller world impinges mightily on the culture of youth. An international and inter-disciplinary roster of experts shed light on today's youth culture by exploring such topics as hip hop culture; punk culture; social justice movements; video games; political activism; language and identity; post-feminism; television; rites of passage; heterosexuality and homosexuality; race and ethnicity; social class; poetry and literature; visual art; conceptions of beauty and body image; academics; sports; drugs; families; refugee youth; the Internet; youth journalism; fashion; and violence. Adults and adolescents will find this authoritative and reliable guide accessible and fascinating. In addition to excellent essays, users will find a timeline of contemporaneous international develpments in youth culture. An introductory essay places youth in historical and contemporary contexts and underscores the notion that despite their power as consumers in a market-oriented world, youth are still seen--and see themselves--in contradictory ways. In short, this work brings new understanding to the complex and fluid phenomenon of youth culture.
After Subculture
After Subculture - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook After Subculture write by Andy Bennett. This book was released on 2004-05-05. After Subculture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Publisher Description
Popular Appeal
Popular Appeal - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Popular Appeal write by Lesley Hawkes. This book was released on 2013-11-18. Popular Appeal available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Now is an opportune moment to consider the shifts in youth and popular culture that are signalled by texts that are being read and viewed by young people. In a world seemingly compromised by climate change, political and religious upheavals and economic irresponsibility, and at a time of fundamental social change, young people are devouring fictional texts that focus on the edges of identity, the points of transition and rupture, and the assumption of new and hybrid identities. This book draws on a range of international texts to address these issues, and to examine the ways in which key popular genres in the contemporary market for young people are being re-defined and re-positioned in the light of urgent questions about the environment, identity, one’s place in the world, and the fragile nature of the world itself. The key questions are: • What are the shifts and changes in youth culture that are identified by the market and by what young people read and view? • How do these texts negotiate the addressing of significant questions relating to the world today? • Why are these texts so popular with young people? • What are the most popular genres in contemporary best-sellers and films? • Do these texts have a global appeal, and, if so, why? These over-arching themes and ideas are presented as a collection of inter-related essays exploring a rich variety of forms and styles from graphic novels to urban realism, from fantasy to dystopian writing, from epic narratives to television musicals. The subjects and themes discussed here reveal the quite remarkable diversity of issues that arise in youth fiction and the variety of fictional forms in which they are explored. Once seen as not as important as adult fiction, this book clearly demonstrates that youth fiction (and the popular appeal of this fiction) is complex, durable and far-reaching in its scope.
After Subculture
After Subculture - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook After Subculture write by Andrew Bennett. This book was released on 2020-09-15. After Subculture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
