The first edited collection to focus on punk and time.
Palgrave Studies
Spectacle, Fashion and the Dancing Experience in Britain, 1960-1990
This book explores dancing from the 1960s to the 1980s; though this period covers only twenty years, the changes during it were seismic. Nevertheless continuities can be found, and those…Read More >
London’s Working-Class Youth and the Making of Post-Victorian Britain, 1958–1971
This book examines the emergence of modern working-class youth culture through the perspective of an urban history of post-war Britain, with a particular focus on the influence of young people…Read More >
Global Dance Cultures in the 1970s and 1980s: Disco Heterotopias
This book explores some of disco’s other lives which thrived between the 1970s and the 1980s, from oil-boom Nigeria to socialist Czechoslovakia, from post-colonial India to war-torn Lebanon. It charts the…Read More >
Narratives from Beyond the UK Reggae Bassline
This book explores the history of reggae in modern Britain from the time it emerged as a cultural force in the 1970s. As basslines from Jamaica reverberated across the Atlantic,…Read More >
Metal on Merseyside: Music Scenes, Community and Locality
This is the first book to examine the partially hidden history of metal music scenes within the city of Liverpool and the surrounding region of Merseyside in the North-West of…Read More >
Hebdige and Subculture in the Twenty-First Century
This book assesses the legacy of Dick Hebdige and his work on subcultures in his seminal work, Subculture: The Meaning of Style (1979). The volume interrogates the concept of subculture put…Read More >
Researching Subcultures, Myth and Memory
This book brings together contributions that analyse how subcultural myths develop and how they can be studied. Through critical engagement with (history) writing and other sources on subcultures by contemporaries,…Read More >
Authenticity and Belonging in the Northern Soul Scene: The Role of History and Identity in a Multigenerational Music Culture
This book, which builds on a three-year immersive ethnographic study, argues that what scene participants do and say within the northern soul scene constitutes a claim to belong. For younger…Read More >
