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Contemporary Youth Culture [Two Volumes] An International Encyclopedia
Shirley Steinberg, Priya Parmar, Birgit Richard
ISBN: 0-313-32716-5
ISBN-13: 978-0-313-32716-2
720 pages
Greenwood Press
Publication: 12/30/2005
List Price: $209.95 (UK Sterling Price: £144.95)
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Description: Youth as a unique group is a 20th century idea. The changes wrought worldwide by World War II, propelled adolescence to a status and identity that coincided with unparalleled economic growth. While developmental psychologists refined their theories of normal growth and maturation, society and the media were at work constructing youth as consumers,thereby liberating them from traditional family controls. An increasingly smaller world impinges mightily on the culture of youth. An international and inter-disciplinary roster of experts shed light by exploring such topics as hip hop culture; punk culture; social justice movements; video games; political activism; language and identity; post-feminism; television; rites of passage; heterosexuality and homosexuality; race and ethnicity; social class; poetry and literature; visual art; conceptions of beauty and body image; academics; sports; drugs; families; refugee youth; the Internet; youth journalism; fashion; and violence. This authoritative and reliable guide will prove accessible and fascinating to adults and adolescents.

Youth as a unique group is a 20th century idea. The changes wrought worldwide by WWII, propelled adolescence to a status and identity that coincided with unparalleled economic growth. While developmental psychologists refined their theories of normal growth and maturation, society and the media were at work constructing youth as consumers,thereby liberating them from traditional family controls. An increasingly smaller world impinges mightily on the culture of youth. An international and inter-disciplinary roster of experts shed light on today's youth culture by exploring such topics as hip hop culture; punk culture; social justice movements; video games; political activism; language and identity; post-feminism; television; rites of passage; heterosexuality and homosexuality; race and ethnicity; social class; poetry and literature; visual art; conceptions of beauty and body image; academics; sports; drugs; families; refugee youth; the Internet; youth journalism; fashion; and violence. Adults and adolescents will find this authoritative and reliable guide accessible and fascinating.

In addition to excellent essays, users will find a timeline of contemporaneous international develpments in youth culture. An introductory essay places youth in historical and contemporary contexts and underscores the notion that despite their power as consumers in a market-oriented world, youth are still seen—and see themselves—in contradictory ways. In short, this work brings new understanding to the complex and fluid phenomenon of youth culture.
Table of Contents:
  • Section One: Studying Youth Culture
    Why Study Youth Culture?
    "Oh Puhleeze?" Learning Youth Culture
    Youth Subcultures, Postmodernism, and the Media
    A Critical Geography of Youth Culture
    Global Youth
    Hip Hop Globalization and Youth Culture
    Language and Identitiy in Youth Culture
    Language and Talk
    Problematizing the "Problem" Teen: Reconceptionualizing Adolescent Development
    Adolescent Rites of Passage
    On Youth and Psychological Investment
    Stepfamilies in the United States
    Blending Youth and Organizational Cultures
    Section Two: Media Culture and Youth
    Disney and Consumer Culture
    Ageism, Stereotypes, Television
    Three-Minute Clip Culture
    Techno/House, Hip Hop Clubs and Video
    Advertising and German MTV
    Raising World Citizens: New Programming for Youth in the United States
    Japanese Electronic Game Culture
    Dorama; Japanese TV
    Anime
    Manga
    Steal This Article
    Online hip Hop Culture
    Instant Messaging and Identity
    Girl Net Culture
    Jammer Girl and the WWW
    Queer Youth and the Media
    Cripqueers and the Land of Make-Believe
    Section Three: Youth Identities and Subcultures
    Girl Culture
    Eating Disorders and Sexuality
    Exploring the Culture of "Sluthood" Among Adolescents
    Queer Punk
    The Metrosexual and Youth Culture
    Teddy Boys
    Idols
    Remix Culture
    Industrial Culture
    Industrial Bands
    Raggae
    Emo Music and Youth Culture
    Discos: From Liberation to Commodification of Pleasure
    Techno and House Cultures
    The Elements and Eras of Hip Hop Culture
    Hip Hop, Wiggahs, and Whiteness
    Check Me?.....No Check YOU!
    Fashion and the Commodity Society
    Fashion Brands and Logos
    Retro
    Fashion and Techno-Style
    Wearables
    Piercing
    Goth
    Skateboarding: Between Mainstream and Punk Rock
    Air & Style Snowboarding Contest
    Paintball: From Marketing Trees to Sport
    Public Pedagogy as Spectacle: The Case of the Professional Wrestling
    Section Four; Politics and Youth Activism
    Youth Mobilization-Strength in Numbers
    Kids Against Capital
    Guerilla Journalism
    Youth Peace-Builders in Community Organizations
    Youth in the Black Panther Party
    Borikua Guerrero Youth Organizing
    SLAM! Genre for Social Activism
    Feminists' Daughters
    Contemporay Punk Rock and Activism
    Teaching and Learning In and Out of School
    The Power of Rap as a Form of Literacy
    Hip Hop and Education
    Transformations Through Hip Hop
    "I Write for that Shy Little Girl": Spoken Word's Power to Document
    Exceptional Youth Cultures: A Framework for Instructional Strategies
    Youth Led Research
    A Meeting of the Minds
    The Aesththetic Dimension of Youth Culture Education
    Punk Rock Performances at Liberty High School
    Refugee Youth: At Home, in School, In the Community
    Indentity Formation and Academic Achievement "Pieced" Together
    The Beauty Incident
    English and U.S. Culture
    French Immersion Students in Canada
    Pop Fiction and Literacy
    Youth Culture and Creative Literacy
    Organized Youth Sport and Its Alternatives
    C.H.A.O.S.
    Young Organic Intellectuals in NYC
    About the Editors and Contributors
    Kinderculture and Marketing: From Toys to Harry Potter
    Youth Culture and Video Games
    Otaku
About the Author: SHIRLEY STEINBERG is Associate Professor Head and Program Head, Graduate Literacy, Brooklyn College, City University of New York, and a member of the graduate education faculty, CUNY Graduate Center. She is known internationally for her writing on youth cuture and education.

PRIYA PARMAR is Assistant Professor, Literacy, Adolescence Program, Brooklyn College, City University of New York. She has written on hip hop and urban art and culture for Critical Thinking: An Encyclopedia (GPG 2003) and Urban Education: An Encyclopedia (GPG forthcoming).

BIRGIT RICHARD is University Professor for New Media, University of Frankfurt, Institute for Art Education, Germany. She lectures extensively in Europe and the United States.
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