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Club Cultures: Music, Media and Subcultural Capital (Paperback)

by Sarah Thornton (Author)
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  • Paperback: 208 pages
  • Publisher: Polity Press (23 Nov 1995)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0745614434
  • ISBN-13: 978-0745614434
  • Product Dimensions: 22.8 x 15.4 x 1.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
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′Sarah Thornton′s book raises some serious issues about cultural empowerment and the retrograde role of that growing academic discipline, cultural studies.′ C–Theory

′The book covers not only the club scene and its relationship with the media, but also the history of the discotheque, the decline of ′live′ music and the corresponding rise in popularity of its pre–recorded counterpart, as well as the notion of ′hipness′ – a concept central to youth culture.′ The Pulse

′If ... an academic, critical analysis of the far–reaching cultural effects of clubbing sets your pulse racing, this thoroughly researched book makes for an essential bedside companion.′ Musik

′Club Cultures is staking out new territory. Thornton has provided an accessible and interesting account of her subject that will be of great use to anyone trying to find out whatever happened to youth culture since the heady days of Dick Hebdige as long ago as 1979.′ The Times Higher Education Supplement

′Imagine a book that could be subtitled Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Dance But Didn′t Even Know Such Questions Existed.′ Q Magazine

′This major contribution to the study of youth movements also looks at DJs, drugs, fanzines, globalisation and best of all, asks what exactly are the raver hierarchies of hipness? An accessible and informed book, deserving of a wide audience.′ Preview

′A highly accessible yet rigorously written study of popular culture ... an important contribution not only to current media debates, but also that oft overlooked question of club music and gender.′ Everywoman

′One of the smartest and most audacious pieces of musical sociology in years.′ Spin

′Club Cultures provides an interesting out–look on dance culture ... you′ll definitely have a better understanding of the phenomenon after reading it.′ Bikini

′Club Cultures addresses a number of substantive fields within sociology. As a treatise on popular culture, and the sociology of culture generally, the book is an excellent case study that introduces a way of analyzing subcultures on their own ocnsimptive terms.′ American Journal of Sociology

′An admirable degree of theoretical and empirical sophistication and attempt[s] to situate the phenomena under study in a wider social context ... an in–depth account of the origins and meanings of the British club scene ... the empirical observation is deeply and skilfully woven into a rich and carefully constructed analysis ... Club Cultures is a refreshing, provoking and stimulating book which I enjoyed reading. I strongly recommend it and I have no doubt that it will be a success.′ European Journal of Communication



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This is an innovative contribution to the study of popular culture, focusing on the youth cultures that revolve around dance clubs and raves.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Towards a subcultural revamp., 20 April 2003
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This review is from: Club Cultures: Music, Media, and Subcultural Capital (Music/Culture) (Paperback)
This book is a refreshing addition to the sociology of popular culture. Thournton suceeds in objectively discussing youth subcultural phenomenoms since the 1980s. This is successfully done through the way she has been able to properly contextualise club cultures, and rave in particular, within the dominant rock ideology which permeates 'adult' society. Indeed, this allows Thournton to present a case which suggests that such youth subcultures are perhaps the most misunderstood cultural phenomenoms of late. Her discussions concerning media representation facillitate her analysis of the moral panics that surrounded the 'acid house' boom. She also considers the way in which 'New Age Travellers' were represented as 'folk devils' before going on to place her thinking within the wider theoretical spheres of popular culture.
Thorntons book is an informed one. It begins to deal with the complexities that sociological theory to date has struggled to deal with. Moreover, it has begun to fill in the gaps that had previously exsisted in the knowledge around this subject, aswell as being one of the first major investigations into club cultures. A fascinating book.
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