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Klappentext Poised between the commercialism of mass consumption and a questioning of prevailing social norms, youth cultures offer a fascinating insight into the social and cultural state of Western societies. This innovative collection provides a lively exploration of such cultures, with all their implicit ironies and contradictions, at the end of the twentieth century. Highlighting the current forms of expression - music, style, fashion, entertainment - and the richness of youth culture's historical and contemporary variety, the contributors address key issues including: why young people are seen as at risk from popular culture; how late modernity affects changing shifts in gender relations; how young people relate to texts, from the literary to the the transgressive; and how the young construct alternative social spheres and symbolic forms. Youth Culture in Late Modernity outlines the range of approaches to understanding youth culture and subculture and their relations to, or differences from, popular and high culture. Zusammenfassung Poised between the commercialism of mass consumption and a questioning of prevailing social norms! youth cultures offer a fascinating insight into the social and cultural state of Western societies. This innovative collection provides a lively exploration of such cultures! with all their implicit ironies and contradictions. Inhaltsverzeichnis Youth, Culture and Modernity - Johan Fornäs The History of High and Low Culture - Ulf Bo[e with an umlaut above it}ethius Youth, the Media and Moral Panics - Ulf Bo[e with an umlaut above it]ethius The Media in Public and Private Spheres - Bo Reimer The Shop, the Home and Femininity as a Masquerade - Hillevi Ganetz Consistency and Change in the Lifeworld of Young Women - Sabina Holstein-Beck Youth and Modern Lifestyles - Bo Reimer Controlled Pleasures - Ulf Bo[e with an umlaut above it]ethius Youth and Literary Texts ...
