Researching Subcultures, Myth and Memory Bart Van Der Steen

1. Introduction: Researching Subcultures, Myth and Memory

Section I

2. Situating ‘Subculture’: On the Origins and Limits of the Term for Understanding Youth Cultures

3. Myth and Authenticity in Subculture Studies

Section II

4. Punk Legends: Cultural Representation and Ostension

5. ‘Bad to the Bone’: The Myth and Mystique of the Motorcycle Gang

6. ‘Two Baltimores’ and the Conflicting Representations of Baltimore’s Wild Out Wheelie Boyz

Section III

7. Remembering Andre ‘Angel’ Melendez: Rave Subculture’s Contested/Conflicted Memory of a Racially Motivated Murder

8. ‘From the Dark Past’: Historiographies of Violence in Norwegian Black Metal

9. Between Revolution and the Market: Bob Marley and the Cultural Politics of the Youth Icon

Section IV

10. Memories of Being Punk in West Germany: Personal and Shared Recollections in Life Stories

11. Mapping Subcultures from Scratch: Moving Beyond the Mythology of Dutch Post-Punk

Section V

12. Imagining and Performing Marginalization: Hip Hop and the Arab Spring of 2011

13. ‘Soaking Up the Punky-Funky All-Feel of Eastern Kreuzberg’: Myth-Making, Preference Constructio