'Sottocultura' si č affermato a livello mondiale come un punto di riferimento per lo studio delle culture musicali giovanili. Hebdige non si limita a ripercorrere le vicende delle sottoculture inglesi, hipster, teddy boy, mod, skinhead passando per il glam e il Northern Soul, ma, sulla scorta delle suggestioni fornitegli dal punk, ne fornisce una lettura unitaria sulla base della chiave interpretativa della 'rivolta attraverso lo stile'. 'Sottocultura' č un contributo al rinnovamento degli approcci alla popular culture promosso dai British cultural studies attraverso un ripensamento originale dell'ereditą gramsciana.

This visually stunning volume on lighting and stage design for rock music performances showcases the work of Andi Watson, a leading expert in the field and the designer for prominent acts such as Radiohead, Oasis, and Counting Crows. Examining in depth, lighting set-ups and arrangements for specific shows, the work provides an insider's look at the cutting edge of lighting design. A great many full-color photographs of dynamic lighting situations, as well as layout diagrams and insight from experts on the technical intricacies of the craft are included. The volume includes a foreword by Thom Yorke, the lead singer of Radiohead. Scoates is the director of the University Art Museum at California State University, Long Beach. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Scritto a ridosso della fine del punk, il saggio di Hebdige č un viaggio affascinante nel mondo sotterraneo delle culture giovanili inglesi dagli anni Cinquanta fino all'esplosione del 1977. Teddy boy e beat, mod e rocker, skinhead e punk: Hebdige dimostra come le diverse sottoculture sorsero e si svilupparono nel dialogo, e talvolta nello scontro, tra la working class bianca e gli immigrati neri, nel tentativo di dare risposta all'ostilitą e alla derisione dei gruppi sociali dominanti. Forme di resistenza figlie dello stesso disagio, le sottoculture si scontravano con il mondo dei 'normali' e degli adulti. Creatrici di stile e immagine, erano allo stesso tempo vittime compiacenti dell'industria della musica e della moda.

'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

With enviable precision and wit Hebdige has addressed himself to a complex topic - the meanings behind the fashionable exteriors of working-class youth subcultures - approaching them with a sophisticated theoretical apparatus that combines semiotics, the sociology of devience and Marxism and come up with a very stimulating short book - Time Out

This book is an attempt to subject the various youth-protest movements of Britain in the last 15 years to the sort of Marxist, structuralist, semiotic analytical techniques propagated by, above all, Roland Barthes. The book is recommended whole-heartedly to anyone who would like fresh ideas about some of the most stimulating music of the rock era - The New York Times