Subculture to Clubcultures: An Introduction to Popular Cultural Studies

In Subculture to Clubcultures Steve Redhead responds to the separation of "youth" and "pop" in the 1980s and the fragmentation of the audience for popular music in the 1990s, arguing for a redefinition of the conceptual apparatus needed to explain the most recent developments in popular music culture –from the rise of "Clubcultures" to the future of the popular music scene. Coverage includes: the dance pop culture of the 1980s and 1990s; global youth culture as it was dynamized in this period by Garage, House, Electro, Techno and other contemporary dance music forms; the consequences of this for the continued importance of various forms of rock and pop music and a range of theoretical approaches to the economic and cultural condition of the postmodern.

Acknowledgements. Introduction. Part I: Subculture: . 1. The Politics of Football Hooliganism. 2. Keeping Off the Grass. 3. The Soccer War. 4. Thatcher′s Boys (Next Door). Part II: Subculture into Clubculture: . 5. The Rehabilitation of Football. 6. The New (Football) Men. 7. Shamble On. 8. What′s so Funny ′Bout Peace, Love and Understanding?. 9. The Age of Rock. 10. Down the Tube: Pop on Television. 11. Post–pop. 12. Pop Time, Acid House. 13. Lager Louts and the English Disease. 14. Moynihan Brings Out the Hooligan in Me. 15. Supertifo. Part III: Clubcultures: . 16. Oh Manchester, So Much to Answer For. 17. Licensed to Thrill. 18. The Last Generation?. 19. Clubcultures. 20. Oasis: (What′s the Story) Manchester′s Glory?. References. Notes. Index.

Steve Redhead is Reader in Law and Popular Culture at the Manchester Metropolitan University. He is Director of the Unit for Law and Popular Culture and Co–Director of the Manchester Institute for Popular Culture at the Manchester Metropolitan University.