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Subculture Books
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Assholes Finish First (Tucker Max, #2)
by (shelved 13 times as subculture)
avg rating 3.63 — 25,355 ratings — published 2008
Hell's Angels (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as subculture)
avg rating 3.98 — 54,668 ratings — published 1966
Subculture: The Meaning of Style (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as subculture)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,258 ratings — published 1979
Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as subculture)
avg rating 4.19 — 36,665 ratings — published 1996
Trainspotting (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as subculture)
avg rating 4.11 — 178,440 ratings — published 1993
England's Dreaming: Anarchy, Sex Pistols, Punk Rock, and Beyond (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as subculture)
avg rating 4.06 — 7,374 ratings — published 1991
The Subcultures Reader (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as subculture)
avg rating 3.92 — 59 ratings — published 1997
Girls to the Front: The True Story of the Riot Grrrl Revolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as subculture)
avg rating 3.95 — 9,053 ratings — published 2010
Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground 1981-1991 (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as subculture)
avg rating 4.21 — 17,927 ratings — published 2001
Educated (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as subculture)
avg rating 4.47 — 1,844,750 ratings — published 2018
Speed Tribes: Days and Nights with Japan's Next Generation (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as subculture)
avg rating 3.79 — 820 ratings — published 1995
Fashioning Japanese Subcultures (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as subculture)
avg rating 3.41 — 56 ratings — published 2012
Japanese Schoolgirl Confidential: How Teenage Girls Made a Nation Cool (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as subculture)
avg rating 3.62 — 315 ratings — published 2010
Goth: Undead Subculture (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as subculture)
avg rating 3.72 — 151 ratings — published 2007
Bury Me Standing: The Gypsies and Their Journey (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as subculture)
avg rating 3.94 — 4,016 ratings — published 1995
Porno (Mark Renton, #3)
by (shelved 3 times as subculture)
avg rating 3.85 — 26,777 ratings — published 2002
The Acid House (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as subculture)
avg rating 3.74 — 17,586 ratings — published 1994
Queer (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as subculture)
avg rating 3.49 — 23,113 ratings — published 1985
Club Cultures: Music, Media, and Subcultural Capital (Music / Culture)
by (shelved 3 times as subculture)
avg rating 3.78 — 330 ratings — published 1995
Pretty in Punk: Girl's Gender Resistance in a Boy's Subculture (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as subculture)
avg rating 3.76 — 463 ratings — published 1999
Resistance Through Rituals: Youth Subcultures in Post-War Britain (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as subculture)
avg rating 4.20 — 171 ratings — published 1976
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as subculture)
avg rating 4.06 — 377,315 ratings — published 1971
Just Kids (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as subculture)
avg rating 4.21 — 350,268 ratings — published 2010
Move On Up: Chicago Soul Music and Black Cultural Power (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as subculture)
avg rating 4.00 — 54 ratings — published
American Hardcore: A Tribal History (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as subculture)
avg rating 3.96 — 3,966 ratings — published 2001
Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as subculture)
avg rating 3.81 — 116,491 ratings — published 2021
Rude Girl (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as subculture)
avg rating 4.29 — 169 ratings — published 2022
Under the Big Black Sun: A Personal History of L.A. Punk (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as subculture)
avg rating 4.10 — 2,250 ratings — published 2016
The Big Payback: The History of the Business of Hip-Hop (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as subculture)
avg rating 4.34 — 1,208 ratings — published 2010
The Art of Gothic: Music + Fashion + Alt Culture (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as subculture)
avg rating 4.25 — 69 ratings — published 2014
Kill All Normies: Online Culture Wars from 4chan and Tumblr to Trump and the Alt-Right (ebook)
by (shelved 2 times as subculture)
avg rating 3.44 — 6,674 ratings — published 2017
Folk Devils and Moral Panics (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as subculture)
avg rating 3.99 — 382 ratings — published 1973
The Story of Crass (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as subculture)
avg rating 3.95 — 474 ratings — published 2006
Lords of Chaos (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as subculture)
avg rating 3.67 — 8,783 ratings — published 1998
Post Office (ebook)
by (shelved 2 times as subculture)
avg rating 3.93 — 138,883 ratings — published 1971
Fangirl (ebook)
by (shelved 2 times as subculture)
avg rating 3.94 — 779,224 ratings — published 2013
Memory Babe: A Critical Biography of Jack Kerouac (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as subculture)
avg rating 4.13 — 860 ratings — published 1983
The Subterraneans (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as subculture)
avg rating 3.65 — 16,795 ratings — published 1958
Come As You Are: The Story of Nirvana (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as subculture)
avg rating 4.07 — 10,451 ratings — published 1993
Tranny: Confessions of Punk Rock's Most Infamous Anarchist Sellout (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as subculture)
avg rating 4.32 — 10,973 ratings — published 2015
Fucked Up + Photocopied: Instant Art of the Punk Rock Movement (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as subculture)
avg rating 4.23 — 401 ratings — published 1999
Nightmare Alley (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as subculture)
avg rating 3.82 — 7,267 ratings — published 1946
Hairstyles of the Damned (Punk Planet Books)
by (shelved 2 times as subculture)
avg rating 3.73 — 5,970 ratings — published 2004
Apocalypse Culture II (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as subculture)
avg rating 4.05 — 602 ratings — published 2000
Apocalypse Culture (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as subculture)
avg rating 3.95 — 1,520 ratings — published 1987
We Got the Neutron Bomb : The Untold Story of L.A. Punk (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as subculture)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,746 ratings — published 2001
Melancology: Black Metal Theory and Ecology (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as subculture)
avg rating 3.49 — 65 ratings — published 2014
Otaku Spaces (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as subculture)
avg rating 4.04 — 54 ratings — published 2012
Inside Subculture: The Postmodern Meaning of Style (Dress, Body, Culture)
by (shelved 2 times as subculture)
avg rating 3.49 — 49 ratings — published 2000
“Joining a sub-culture, any sub-culture, for whatever reason, is as I see it never a legitimate self-expression. It is always a result of sheep mentality; a wish to belong somewhere.”
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“The modern rockabilly rebel is inevitably facing a tension between succumbing to the pull of the past—a kind of remembering—and a forgetting that the integrity of any embrace of the past is challenged as contrivance and dissimulation by the near-universal availability of the once-local, once-rebellious, and once-novel style.”
― Performance Anxiety in Media Culture: The Trauma of Appearance and the Drama of Disappearance
― Performance Anxiety in Media Culture: The Trauma of Appearance and the Drama of Disappearance
