Resistance Through Rituals: Youth Subcultures in Post-War Britain by Stuart Hall


Resistance Through Rituals: Youth Subcultures in Post-War Britain
Title : Resistance Through Rituals: Youth Subcultures in Post-War Britain
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ISBN : 0415099161
ISBN-10 : 9780415099165
Language : English
Format Type : Paperback
Number of Pages : 288
Publication : First published June 1, 1976

At a time when youth culture had been widely publicised, but few people understood its significance as one of the most striking and visible manifestations of social and political change, these papers redressed the balance. Looking in detail at the wide range of post-war youth subcultures, from teds, mods and skinheads to black Rastafarians, Resistance through Rituals considers how youth culture reflects and reacts to cultural change.

This text represents the collective understanding of the leading centre for contemporary culture, and serves to situate some of the most important cultural work of the twentieth century in the new millennium.


Resistance Through Rituals: Youth Subcultures in Post-War Britain Reviews


  • Lunaia

    I did not read this front to back but picked out some chapters that sounded interesting and relelevant to me. It was interesting to get some insight into both the theories and (the most intersting part for me) the way of working at the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies in the 1980's.
    I mainly picked it up because Stuart Hall and the Birmingham school are so often name-dropped in my field of studies and it definitely fulfilled my expectations. Obviously not the newest theories but still relevant for todays cultural studies and the field of subculture research!

  • Alba Gallego

    Ya he entendido por qué es un clásico. Me gusta leer análisis sin el fetichismo con el que se han mediatizado todas las subculturas juveniles. Muy estupendo y accesible.

  • alienticia

    comecei pelo capítulo sobre os mods, permaneci pelas mil abordagens teóricas que não entendo pois felizmente não sou cientista social

  • Laura Gaelx

    Autodefensa lectora: no lo he acabado porque es un libro totalmente académico.
    Paré cerca de la página 150 y todavía no había entrado en materia, solo había metadebates sobre metodología, trabajo de campo, escuelas, etc.

  • Arda

    Hall is cool. Sometimes too complex, but generally cool!

  • Bárbara Reis

    Esse livro é tão, tão, mais tão maravilhoso. A única parte triste é que, como os autores e autoras ressaltam, o sujeito idealizado em todas as análises é um homem, tanto pela maior liberdade que eles tinham de agir de formas desviantes (no espaço público, ainda por cima) como pelo fato da maior parte dos pesquisadores do assunto ter sido homem. Mas tem um essay de uma mulher que fala justamente sobre os mecanismos diferentes das subculturas no universo feminino (falam inclusive de fangirling... De um ponto de vista crítico, ainda por cima. É flawless***) que é fantástico. E a análise geral (que é mais centrada nas diferenças de classe entre as subculturas e a grande "contra-cultura") é genial e abriu meus olhos pra muitas coisas.

    Ugh, esse livro inteiro é maravilhoso. Beijinhos pra todos os lindos do CCCS Birmingham.

  • Phillip

    A must read for anyone interested in subcultures or post-World War II Britain. Not necessarily the most interesting reading in the world, but this collection of essays deals with a variety of topics related to various British subcultures. The book is neatly divided into theory sections and specific studies of individual subcultures or phenomena.

  • Sean

    一本介绍战后青年亚文化比较全面的书,理论,案例,方法。第一章强调“任何一种试图把亚文化与整个社会文化结构联系起来的做法,都必须借用这些必要的差异把握他的复杂同一性”,认为战后青年亚文化是社会变迁的象征(表现在市场”扩大,大众文化传播,战争险恶,教育服饰摇滚乐等)是阶级的重现,是“想象”的联系。第二章民族志部分对摩登族,光头党,无所事事,吸毒,群居公社,雷鬼乐等简短的案例,真的非常简短啊,以至于一脸懵,并不是对他们研究方法的排斥,倒是分析总觉得缺了什么。第三章 有两篇介绍了亚文化研究中女性的缺位,强调把女性纳入亚文化群体研究中。还有以前青年文化政治,这篇一定是最推荐的一篇了…

  • Bookshire Cat

    Pages 9-79 read for a class. It almost killed me.

  • 王维蔚WeiweiWang

    对于理解亚文化和上世纪中末亚文化很有帮助的一本书...斯图亚特·霍尔的部分在书内占据不多,主要是不同论文的理论、方法合辑,第二部分的民族志很有看头。第三四部分粗粗看过不能理解,因为没有看懂所以有朝一日需要重新读。