Body Style [Paperback]

Body Stylereveals the subcultural body as a site for understanding subcultural identity, resistance, agency, and fashion. Analyzed, theorized, politicized, and sensationalized, the subcultural body functions as a framework where individuals build a sense of self and subcultural identity. Drawing on specific subcultural examples and interviews with members,Body Styleexplores the subcultural body and its style within global culture.

Body Styleis the result of over twelve years of research examining these intersections within specific urban subcultures, including Urban Tribals, Modern Primitives, Punks, Cybers, Industrials, Skaters, and others. Divided into three main sections on subcultural body history, subcultural body identity and subcultural body styles, this book will be of particular interest to students of dress and fashion as well as those coming to subculture from sociology and cultural studies.

Chapter One: Introduction Hip Hop and Rap Subcultures Consuming Subcultures Toward a Working Definition of Subcultures Defining Subculture in this Research Dress, Body Modification, and the Subcultural Body Entr?e into Subcultural Research An Examination of Subcultural Body Style Overview Footnotes Chapter Two: Subcultural Body Style History The Body Mind/Body Dualism Postmodern Body Somatic Body Politicizing the Body Existential Postmodern Body Gendered Body The Body and Dress Subcultural Body Victorian Tattooed Ladies Anthropology and the Subcultural Body Socialization of the Subcultural Body Punks Skates Zokus Phenomenology of the Subcultural Body Subcultural Rituals of Pain Subcultural Body Labels Piercings Skin Resurfacing Implants Chapter Summary Footnotes Chapter Three: Subcultural Body Identity Subcultural Body Customization Noisy Aesthetics Displayed Body Performance Kurasu-zoku (Crow Tribe) Commodity (Value) Fetishized Deviance Disguise Social Body Belonging Narrationls*