Researching Subcultures, Myth and Memory

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. Introduction: Researching Subcultures, Myth and Memory

   • Bart van der Steen, Thierry P. F. Verburgh

   Pages 1-16

3. Section I

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 17-18

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   2. Situating ‘Subculture’: On the Origins and Limits of the Term for Understanding Youth Cultures

      • Andy Bennett

      Pages 19-34

   3. Myth and Authenticity in Subculture Studies

      • J. Patrick Williams

      Pages 35-53

4. Section II

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 55-56

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   2. Punk Legends: Cultural Representation and Ostension

      • Jeffrey S. Debies-Carl

      Pages 57-78

   3. ‘Bad to the Bone’: The Myth and Mystique of the Motorcycle Gang

      • Bill Osgerby

      Pages 79-104

   4. ‘Two Baltimores’ and the Conflicting Representations of Baltimore’s Wild Out Wheelie Boyz

      • Glen Wood

      Pages 105-124

5. Section III

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 125-126

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   2. Remembering Andre ‘Angel’ Melendez: Rave Subculture’s Contested/Conflicted Memory of a Racially Motivated Murder

      • Yamil Avivi

      Pages 127-149

   3. ‘From the Dark Past’: Historiographies of Violence in Norwegian Black Metal

      • Ross Hagen

      Pages 151-170

   4. Between Revolution and the Market: Bob Marley and the Cultural Politics of the Youth Icon

      • Jeremy Prestholdt

      Pages 171-194

6. Section IV

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 195-196

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   2. Memories of Being Punk in West Germany: Personal and Shared Recollections in Life Stories

      • Knud Andresen

      Pages 197-214

   3. Mapping Subcultures from Scratch: Moving Beyond the Mythology of Dutch Post-Punk

      • Richard Foster

      Pages 215-232

7. Section V

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 233-234

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   2. Imagining and Performing Marginalization: Hip Hop and the Arab Spring of 2011

      • Igor Johannsen

      Pages 235-259

   3. ‘Soaking Up the Punky-Funky All-Feel of Eastern Kreuzberg’: Myth-Making, Preference Construction, and Youth Cultures

      • Thierry P. F. Verburgh

      Pages 261-290

8. Back Matter

   Pages 291-302

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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, veterans, popular media and researchers, it aims to establish: how stories and histories of subcultures emerge and become canonized through the process of mythification; which developments and actors are crucial in this process; and finally how researchers like historians, sociologists, and anthropologists should deal with these myths and myth-making processes. By considering these issues and questions in relation to mythmaking, this book provides new insights on how to research the identity, history, and cultural memory of youth subcultures.



                       

• popular memory
• youth subcultures
• cultural memory
• historiography
• methodology

• Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands

  Bart van der Steen

• Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

  Thierry P.F. Verburgh

Bart van der Steen is University Lecturer at Leiden University’s Institute of History, the Netherlands. His previous book with Palgrave, A European Youth Revolt: European Perspectives on Youth Protest and Social Movements in the 1980s, published in 2016.

Thierry P.F. Verburgh is research coordinator of the Center for Applied Research of the Faculty of Digital Media and Creative Industries at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (AUAS), the Netherlands. His research focuses on the social interactions and epistemology (e.g. perceived reality, myth-making, and fundamentalism) of youth cultures, generations, and social movements.

               

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