Subculture: The Meaning of Style

by Dick Hebdige

Book Overview

'Hebdige's Subculture: The Meaning of Style is so important: 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

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415039495
• ISBN13: 9780415039499
• Release Date: January 1979
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.0" x 7.4"

Customer Reviews

subculture

Book was in very good condition, but I have to say that I ordered and paid for a overnight service ($17.00)and I got my book five days latter...not acceptable. Next time I paid the regular fare of $3.00 and shop around. Thank you

Excellent Resource

Hebdige's book is an excellent text that is enjoyable and informative to read. It is academic and poetic all at once, mirroring certain aspects of the self-conscious scene he describes. He takes on the challenge of recording both the history and method of cultural creation and change in Britain, and leaves the savvy reader at a good place for interpreting later subcultural movements (US punk & hardcore, for example). I would say this is an essential read for the student or layman interested in subculture (past and present) or the history of punks, skins, etc.

Buy this book.

Professor Hebdige is a genius, and contrary to the other review he immersed himself in "this scene." He grew up right in the middle of the movement in England and witnessed firsthand the events and shifts that the book covers. He is a brilliant professor at UCSB and to take his class is an experience like no other. Reading this book is only a glimpse into the mind of one of the world's most exceptionally brilliant and artistic men.

Art Primer

This book is fundmentally the the bases for anyone who is studying art theory. This books goes into how subcultures like the punk movement to hip hop and gang cultures got started and why they are important to understanding diverse social structures. Althought this book is small it is not an easy read. I read this book four or five time before things started to sink in. After finishing this book I felt more prepared for the art going experience.

An excellently vivid portrayal of London subcultures.

Dick Hebdige provides unparalled insight to the the United Kingdom's subcultures. If you're interested in the mods or skinheads, check it out!