“Critically assess the project of Hebdige in Subculture (1979)”
The world of subculture was more visible in Britain than anywhere else in 1970s. It is in this context that Dick Hebdige wrote Subculture: The Meaning of Style in 1979. This book, associated with Cultural Studies, builds on earlier work carried out by the Birmingham School on youth subculture and has been widely read. The term “subculture” had been in use for decades before Hebdige propelled it into the limelight. His work mainly focused on marginal groups. Yesterday the punks, today hip hop and tecktonik: so many examples of urban culture, sometimes wild and often anti-authority with their artistic forms of expression, their dress codes and their history. Rather than ignoring them or worse stigmatizing them, it is necessary to try to understand them. This short and concise text is really a pioneering plan: a way to read personal fashion. In Subculture: The Meaning of Style, Hebdige reads style as a form of......
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