Tattoo Culture - Theory and Contemporary Contexts

Tattoo Culture investigates contemporary tattoo culture, its fandom and popular cultural visibility through a combination of the examination of tattooing theory, conceptual understanding and ethnographic research.

List of contents

Introduction / Part I Culture & Theory / 1. From Ötzi to Trash Polka: Reading Tattoos / 2. Celebrity Skin: Tattoos and Popular Culture/ 3. Theorising Ink: Tattooing as Semiotic Communication and Phenomenological Expression/ Part II Ethnographies of Ink / 4. Tattoos as Communicative Practice and Phenomenological Expression: The Tattooed Perspective/ 5. Needle Work: Tattoo Artists and the Studio Space/ 6. Tattoo Conventions: Fandom and Participatory Art Worlds Worlds / 7. Tattoo Culture: Transformation, Being, and Time / Conclusion / Index

About the author

Lee Barron is a Principal Lecturer in the Department of Media and Communication Design at the University of Northumbria and teaches in the areas of media, culture, advertising and branding, and celebrity culture. Dr Barron has published two books, Social Theory in Popular Culture (2013, Palgrave) and Celebrity Cultures (2015, SAGE) and has written a number of articles in journals such as: the European Journal of Cultural Studies, Popular Music History, New Review of Film and Television Studies, Cultural Politics, Postcolonial Studies, The Journal of Popular Culture, and Fashion Theory.

Product details

• Authors: Lee Barron, Barron Lee
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 05.06.2017
• EAN: 9781783488261
• ISBN: 978-1-78348-826-1
• No. of pages: 204
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 239 mm x 22 mm
• Weight: 490 g
• Illustrations: 20 b/w photos
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Sociology, Cultural Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, ART / Body Art & Tattooing, Body art & tattooing, Body art and tattoos