YOUTH CULTURES AND SUBCULTURES
A truly impressive collection! Bringing together scholars from across Australia, this book represents the breadth, rigour and diversity of current research in youth cultures, demonstrating that Australian scholars are now clearly leading the way in contemporary youth cultural studies. A perfect blend of cutting edge research that is also geared towards use in the classroom, this collection will be of interest to academics and students alike.
Sian Lincoln, Liverpool John Moores University, UK
Youth Cultures and Subcultures
Australian Perspectives
Edited by
SARAH BAKER
Griffith University, Australia
BRADY ROBARDS
University of Tasmania, Australia
BOB BUTTIGIEG
Griffith University, Australia
First published 2015 by Ashgate Publishing
Published 2016 by Routledge
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The Library of Congress has cataloged the printed edition as follows:
Baker, Sarah, 1977-
Youth cultures and subcultures : Australian perspectives / by Sarah Baker, Brady Robards and Bob Buttigieg.
pages cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-4724-2665-9 (hardback) 1. Youth--Australia. 2. Subculture--Australia.
I. Robards, Brady. II. Buttigieg, Bob. III. Title.
HQ799.A8B33 2014
305.235--dc23
2014023030
ISBN 9781472426659 (hbk)
ISBN 9781315545998 (ebk)
Contents
Bob Buttigieg, Brady Robards and Sarah Baker
Andy Bennett
Peter Kelly
Rob White
Dan Woodman and Johanna Wyn
Steven Threadgold
Greg Noble
Pam Nilan and Steven Threadgold
Rosemary Overell
Ani Wierenga and Johanna Wyn
Sherene Idriss
Brady Robards
Courtney Sim and Sarah Baker
Anita Harris
George Morgan
Amy Shields Dobson
Zelmarie Cantillon
Christopher Driver
Adele Pavlidis
Anastasia Powell
Bob Buttigieg
Jodie Taylor and Angela Dwyer
Christine Feldman-Barrett
Sian Supski and Peter Beilharz
Andy Ruddock
List of Figures and Tables
Figures
Tables
Notes on Contributors
Sarah Baker is an Associate Professor in Cultural Sociology at Griffith University, Australia. She has published widely on the popular music practices of young people. Her books include Creative Labour: Media Work in Three Cultural Industries (with David Hesmondhalgh, Routledge, 2011) and Redefining Mainstream Popular Music (with Andy Bennett and Jodie Taylor, Routledge, 2013).
Peter Beilharz is a Professor of Sociology and Director of the Thesis Eleven Centre for Cultural Sociology at La Trobe University, Australia.
Andy Bennett is a Professor of Cultural Sociology and Director of the Griffith Centre for Cultural Research at Griffith University. He specialises in the areas of youth culture and popular music, and has authored and edited numerous publications on these themes.
Bob Buttigieg is a PhD candidate in the School of Humanities at Griffith University. His research intersects queer studies, youth studies and cultural studies, focusing on how young queer people on Australias Gold Coast manage their sexual minority identities in a city that is normalised and naturalised as predominately heterosexual and patriarchal.
Zelmarie Cantillon is a PhD candidate in the School of Humanities, Griffith University. Her doctoral research explores the popular cultural engagements of youth globally through a comparative study of leisure practices in international resort cities.
Amy Shields Dobson is a Lecturer in Sociology and Gender at Monash University, Australia. Her work focuses on gender politics in youth digital media and communication practices. Amy has recently published articles in Feminist Media Studies, Outskirts and Continuum.
Christopher Driver is a PhD candidate at Griffith University. His doctoral research investigates the impact of sustained participation in the Hardcore music scene in Southeast Queensland and northern New South Wales, Australia. He is particularly interested in the link between youth cultural participation and non-traditional pathways to work and employment.
Angela Dwyer is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Justice at the Queensland University of Technology, Australia. Her research focuses on how lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people experience policing and criminal justice. She is an author of Sex, Crime, and Morality (with Hayes and Carpenter, Routledge, 2011).
Christine Feldman-Barrett is a Lecturer in Cultural Sociology at Griffith University. She was a 20062007 Fulbright Scholar at the University of Hamburgs Research Centre for Contemporary History and is the author of We are the Mods: A Transnational History of a Youth Subculture (Peter Lang, 2009).
Anita Harris is an Australian Research Council Future Fellow in the School of Political and Social Inquiry, Monash University. Her research interests include youth identities, cultures, citizenship and participation. Her books include Young People and Everyday Multiculturalism (Routledge, 2013), Next Wave Cultures (Routledge, 2008) and Future Girl (Routledge, 2004).
Sherene Idriss is a PhD candidate at the Institute for Culture and Society at the University of Western Sydney, Australia. Her research examines the creative-based vocational aspirations of young people of Arab-Australian backgrounds and the ways in which they are shaped by the intersections between ethnicity, gender, youth and social class.
Peter Kelly is currently Deputy Head of School (Research and Innovation), School of Education, RMIT. His recent books include
