Youth Culture and Social Change

The Subcultures Network was formed as the Interdisciplinary Network for the Study of Subcultures, Popular Music and Social Change in 2011. The Network's steering committee comprises Keith Gildart (University of Wolverhampton), Anna Gough-Yates (University if Roehampton), Sian Lincoln (Liverpool John Moores University), Bill Osgerby (London Metropolitan University), Lucy Robinson (University of Sussex), John Street (University of East Anglia), Pete Webb (University of the West of England) and Matthew Worley (University of Reading). 

Acknowledgements.- List of Figures.- List of Contributors.- Introduction; Subcultures Network.- Part 1: Riots.- Subcultures, Schools and Rituals: A Case Study of the Bristol ‘Riots’ (1980); Roger Ball.- The Language of the Unheard: Social Media and Riot Subculture/s; Louis Rice.- ‘My Manor’s Ill’: How Underground Music Told the Real Story of the UK Riots; Sarah Attfield.- ‘A Different Vibe and a Different Place’: Re-telling the Riots; Roundtable (edited by Lucy Robinson and Pete Webb).- Part 2: Music.- ‘(Today I Met) The Boy I’m Gonna Marry’: Romantic Expectations of Teenage Girls in the 1960s West Midlands; Ros Watkiss Singleton.- Agents of Change: Cultural Materialism, Post-Punk and the Politics of Popular Music; David Wilkinson.- How to Forget (and Remember) ‘The Greatest Punk Rock Band in the World’: Bad Brains, Hardcore Punk, and Black Popular Culture; Tara Marin Lopez and Michael Mills.- Part 3: Gangs.- ‘It wasnae just Easterhouse’: The Politics of Representation in the Glasgow Gang Phenomenon, c. 1965–75; Angela Bartie and Alistair Fraser.- Gang Girls: Agency, Sexual Identity and Victimisation ‘On Road’; Tara Young and Loretta Trickett.- ‘Silence is Virtual’: Youth Violence, Belonging, Death and Mourning; William ‘Lez’ Henry and Sireita Mullings-Lawrence.- Index     

“Youth Culture and Social Change is filled with important research and can be a constructive book for anyone working at the crossroads of popular music studies, history, and sociology …” (Kyle Chattleton, The Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth, Vol. 12 (2), 2019)