McRobbie, Angela and Garber, Jenny. 1977. Girls and Subcultures. In: Stuart Hall and Tony Jefferson, eds. Resistance Through Ritual - Youth Subcultures in Post-war Britain. Hutchinson and the CCCS Birmingham (also an Open University Reader). ISBN 978-0091279110 [Book Section]

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The work of the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies at Birmingham has been noted as historically leading the field in new areas of enquiry within the field of cultural studies, and the papers from the Centre are canonical reading for many cultural studies students. This revised edition includes all the original, exceptional papers, and enhances these with the reflections of the editors thirty years after the original publication.

At a time when youth culture had been widely publicised, but few people understood its significance as one of the most striking and visible manifestations of social and political change, these papers redressed the balance. Looking in detail at the wide range of post-war youth subcultures, from teds, mods and skinheads to black Rastafarians, Resistance through Rituals considers how youth culture reflects and reacts to cultural change.

This text represents the collective understanding of the leading centre for contemporary culture, and serves to situate some of the most important cultural work of the twentieth century in the new millennium.

Item Type:	Book Section
Departments, Centres and Research Units:	Media, Communications and Cultural Studies
Dates:	Date Event 1977 Published
Item ID:	14504
Date Deposited:	26 Oct 2015 14:26
Last Modified:	27 Jun 2017 14:44
URI:	https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/14504

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