Chapter One

Youth Cultures: A Critical Summary of Key Debates

Paul Hodkinson

Chapter Two

As Young as You Feel: Youth as Discursive Construct

Andy Bennett

Chapter Three

Recent Concepts in Youth Cultural Studies: Critical Reflections From the Sociology of Music

David Hesmondhalgh

Chapter Four

‘Insider’ and ‘Outsider’ Issues in Youth Research

Rhoda MacRae

Chapter Five

Rethinking the Subcultural Commodity: Exploring Heavy Metal T-Shirt Culture/s

Andy Brown

Chapter Six

Empowerment or Incorporation? Youth Policy Making and Hip Hop Culture

Rupa Huq

Chapter Seven

Resistance and Commercialisation in ‘Distasteful Movements’: Right-wing Politics and Youth Culture in East Germany

Wolfgang Deicke

Chapter Eight

Gender, Status and Subcultural Capital in Gothic Style

Dunja Brill

Chapter Nine

Homegirls Remembered: Discourse And Literacy Practices Among U.S. Latina Gang Girls

Norma Mendoza-Denton

Chapter Ten

Youth Culture and Ethnicity: Emerging Youth Multiculture in South London

Ben Gidley

Chapter Eleven

Youth Claiming Space: The Case of Pittsburgh's Mr. Roboto Project

Stewart Varner

Chapter Twelve

Hip-Hop’s Musicians and Audience in the Local Musical `Milieu’

Peter Webb

Chapter Thirteen

Pin-Up Punks: the Reality of a Virtual Community

Eric Chamberlin

Chapter Fourteen

A ‘Bounded Virtuality’: ICTs and Youth in Alghero, Sardinia

Silvia Ferrero

Chapter Fifteen

Identity and Structure in Online Gaming: Young People’s Symbolic and Virtual Extensions of Self

Nic Crowe and Simon Bradford