Performing Punk

Hannerz, Erik

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“…Writers such as Nancy MacDonald (2001) and Erik Hannerz (2015), meanwhile, focus on the subjective understanding of collective difference, boundaries and distinctiveness among subcultural participants themselves. Thus, for MacDonald, 'a subculture may be defined as that which constructs, perceives and portrays itself as standing apart from others as an isolated, defined and boundaried group ' (2001: 152, my emphasis).…”

Section: Subculture Without the Cccs?mentioning

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Youth cultures and the rest of life: subcultures, post-subcultures and beyond

Hodkinson

2015

Journal of Youth Studies

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Recent debate on the conceptualisation of youth cultures has been characterised as an irreconcilable stalemate between materialist defenders of a version of subcultural theory derived from the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies and post-subcultural theorists who favour more individualised understandings. This article suggests that, beneath this façade lies a more complex and reconcilable debate and that it may be time to move beyond the polarising presence of the CCCS as primary reference point for the discussion. Turning to substance, I go on to examine how enduring areas of disagreement within the debate can be resolved, establishing ways forward with respect to the interplay between spectacular groupings and individual pathways and the contextualisation of youth cultures, including with respect to material and structural factors. I advocate greater emphasis on the study of collective youth cultures as part of broader biographies as a way forward that can reconcile these substantive strands and draw together insight from across the subcultures/post-subcultures debate.

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Section: Subculture Without the Cccs?mentioning

confidence: 99%

Youth cultures and the rest of life: subcultures, post-subcultures and beyond

Hodkinson

2015

Journal of Youth Studies

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“…Erik Hannerz (2015) has likewise set out "a model of two distinct subcultural patterns of meaning based on how the mainstream is defined and positioned as well as how the subcultural sacred is mobilized and authenticated" (p. 35). Drawing on extensive empirical work (as does Kahn-Harris), Hannerz (2015) identifies these patterns as "convex" and "concave," where "a convex pattern bends outwards, defining the mainstream as external… and a concave pattern bends inwards, positioning the mainstream as internal" to the subculture (p. 35).…”

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“…Drawing on extensive empirical work (as does Kahn-Harris), Hannerz (2015) identifies these patterns as "convex" and "concave," where "a convex pattern bends outwards, defining the mainstream as external… and a concave pattern bends inwards, positioning the mainstream as internal" to the subculture (p. 35). Although this makes "the separation from the mainstream a subcultural construction" (Hannerz, 2015, p. 36), as we might expect, it also renders such a separation multiple.…”

Section: Palabras Clavementioning

confidence: 99%

“…These developments-along with work in subcultural theory (Kahn-Harris, 2007;Hannerz, 2015)-all pose the question as to what place fan community/culture should have within contemporary fan studies. In response, I've argued that continuing to prioritize fan culture (especially by treating this explicitly or implicitly as "true" fandom) fails to consider how fandom imagines and idealizes its community, as well as failing to address the diverse and individualized ways in which fandom can now be performed.…”

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From Fan Culture/Community to the Fan World: Possible Pathways and Ways of Having Done Fandom

Hills¹

2017

Pacla

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In this article I revisit concepts of fan culture and community, which have been central to fan studies. Critiques of subcultural theory, along with fandom's fragmentation into "traditional" fans and "brand fans," have suggested that media fandom cannot be viewed as a coherent culture or community. Consequently, I consider how a concept of fan world addresses some of these emergent critiques of fan culture/community, setting out what a world theory can offer current debates surrounding fandom. I draw particularly on Howard Becker's approach to art worlds (Becker, 2008) and Steven Connor's overview of world concepts (Connor, 2010). This allows me to elaborate on a model of the fan world, moving away from a position where world theories have usually been adopted in relation to franchises' world building to think about the platforms and pathways through which fandom is performed today. Ways of "having done fandom" are chosen, more or less reflexively, by fans from an array of communal and individualized possibilities. And "paths not taken" become counterfactual as fans follow certain bran-1 orcid.org/0000-0002-8778-6530. University of Huddersfield, England. M.J. Hills@hud.ac.uk

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“…While traditional social reaction theories sometimes have had a tendency to take subcultural projections of a singular ‘dominant society’ at face value, more recent theorists, such as Thornton () and Hannerz () have shown – in relation to club culture and punk respectively – how the constructions of mainstream culture against which subcultural participants affirm their identities can be context‐specific and contradictory. Thus, sometimes the mainstream is decried for homogeneity or lack of originality, other times for being too commercial; sometimes it may refer to respectable society, other times to fashionable or trendy youth or even popularized versions of their own style (also see Copes and Williams ).…”

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Targeted harassment, subcultural identity and the embrace of difference: a case study

Hodkinson

Garland

2016

British Journal of Sociology

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This paper examines the significance of experiences and understandings of targeted harassment to the identities of youth subcultural participants, through case study research on goths. It does so against a context of considerable recent public discussion about the victimization of alternative subcultures and a surprising scarcity of academic research on the subject. The analysis presented indicates that, although individual direct experiences are diverse, the spectre of harassment can form an ever-present accompaniment to subcultural life, even for those who have never been seriously targeted. As such, it forms part of what it is to be a subcultural participant and comprises significant common ground with other members. Drawing upon classic and more recent understandings of how subcultural groups respond to broader forms of outside hostility, we show how the shared experience of feeling targeted for harassment tied in with a broader subcultural discourse of being stigmatized by a perceived 'normal' society. The role of harassment as part of this, we argue, contributed to the strength with which subcultural identities were felt and to a positive embrace of otherness.

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Performing Punk

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Youth cultures and the rest of life: subcultures, post-subcultures and beyond

Youth cultures and the rest of life: subcultures, post-subcultures and beyond

From Fan Culture/Community to the Fan World: Possible Pathways and Ways of Having Done Fandom

Targeted harassment, subcultural identity and the embrace of difference: a case study

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