Resistance Through Rituals: Youth Subcultures in Post-War Britain

by Stuart Hall (editor), Tony Jefferson (editor)

At a time when youth culture had been widely publicised, but few people understood its significance as one of the most striking and visible manifestations of social and political change, these papers redressed the balance. Looking in detail at the wide range of post-war youth subcultures, from teds, mods and skinheads to black Rastafarians, Resistance through Rituals considers how youth culture reflects and reacts to cultural change.

This text represents the collective understanding of the leading centre for contemporary culture, and serves to situate some of the most important cultural work of the twentieth century in the new millennium.

Genres: Sociology, History, Cultural Studies, Theory, Nonfiction, British Literature, Anthropology

288 pages, Paperback

First published June 1, 1976

About the author

Stuart Hall was an influential Jamaican-born British sociologist and cultural theorist. He was Professor of Sociology at the Open University, the founding editor of New Left Review, and Director of the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies at the University of Birmingham.

Reviews

[Lunaia]

I did not read this front to back but picked out some chapters that sounded interesting and relelevant to me. It was interesting to get some insight into both the theories and (the most intersting part for me) the way of working at the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies in the 1980's.
I mainly picked it up because Stuart Hall and the Birmingham school are so often name-dropped in my field of studies and it definitely fulfilled my expectations. Obviously not the newest theories but still relevant for todays cultural studies and the field of subculture research!

[Alba Gallego]

Ya he entendido por qué es un clásico. Me gusta leer análisis sin el fetichismo con el que se han mediatizado todas las subculturas juveniles. Muy estupendo y accesible.

[alienticia]

comecei pelo capítulo sobre os mods, permaneci pelas mil abordagens teóricas que não entendo pois felizmente não sou cientista social

[Laura Gaelx]

Autodefensa lectora: no lo he acabado porque es un libro totalmente académico.
Paré cerca de la página 150 y todavía no había entrado en materia, solo había metadebates sobre metodología, trabajo de campo, escuelas, etc.

[Arda]

Hall is cool. Sometimes too complex, but generally cool!

[Daniel Cullinan]

Essential reading for anyone interested in theories of subculture and subcultural history.

[Josiah Fresnel]

Review to come

[Miguel Fernandez]

Goated fundamentals of youth subcultural theory and methodologies

[Bárbara Reis]

Esse livro é tão, tão, mais tão maravilhoso. A única parte triste é que, como os autores e autoras ressaltam, o sujeito idealizado em todas as análises é um homem, tanto pela maior liberdade que eles tinham de agir de formas desviantes (no espaço público, ainda por cima) como pelo fato da maior parte dos pesquisadores do assunto ter sido homem. Mas tem um essay de uma mulher que fala justamente sobre os mecanismos diferentes das subculturas no universo feminino (falam inclusive de fangirling... De um ponto de vista crítico, ainda por cima. É flawless***) que é fantástico. E a análise geral (que é mais centrada nas diferenças de classe entre as subculturas e a grande "contra-cultura") é genial e abriu meus olhos pra muitas coisas.

Ugh, esse livro inteiro é maravilhoso. Beijinhos pra todos os lindos do CCCS Birmingham.

[Phillip]

A must read for anyone interested in subcultures or post-World War II Britain. Not necessarily the most interesting reading in the world, but this collection of essays deals with a variety of topics related to various British subcultures. The book is neatly divided into theory sections and specific studies of individual subcultures or phenomena.

[Bookshire Cat]

Pages 9-79 read for a class. It almost killed me.

[Weiwei Wang]

对于理解亚文化和上世纪中末亚文化很有帮助的一本书...斯图亚特·霍尔的部分在书内占据不多，主要是不同论文的理论、方法合辑，第二部分的民族志很有看头。第三四部分粗粗看过不能理解，因为没有看懂所以有朝一日需要重新读。