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Club cultures : music, media, and subcultural capital / Sarah Thornton.

Author/creator Thornton, Sarah (Sarah L.)
Format Book and Print
Edition1st U.S. ed.
Publication InfoHanover : University Press of New England, 1996.
Descriptionx, 191 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Subject(s)
Series Music/culture
Music/culture. ^A390481
Contents 1. The Distinctions of Cultures Without Distinction. Youth and their Social Spaces -- 2. Authenticities from Record Hops to Raves (and the History of Disc Culture). The Authentication of a Mass Medium. Industrial Forces, Musician Resistance and 'Live' Ideology. 'Real' Events and Altered Spaces. Disc Jockeys and Social Sounds. The Authenticities of Dance Genres. The Response of the 'Live' Gig -- 3. Exploring the Meaning of the Mainstream (or why Sharon and Tracy Dance around their Handbags). A Night of Research. Academic Accounts of the Cultural Organization of Youth. The Social Logic of Subcultural Capital. Participation versus Observation of Dance Crowds -- 4. The Media Development of 'Subcultures' (or the Sensational Story of 'Acid House'). The Underground versus the Overexposed. Mass Media: 'Selling Out' and 'Moral Panic'. Micro-Media: Flyers, Listings, Fanzines, Pirates. Niche Media: the Editorial Search for Subcultures.
General note"Wesleyan University Press."
General noteOriginally published: Cambridge, UK : Polity Press in association with Blackwell Publishers, 1995.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 169-187) and index.
LCCN 95061500
ISBN0819552917
ISBN9780819552914
ISBN0819562971 (pbk.)
ISBN9780819562975 (pbk.)

Available Items

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Music Closed Stacks - Ask at Circulation Desk HN385.5 .T46 1996 ✔ Available Place Hold