This book brings together contributions that analyse how subcultural myths develop and how they can be studied. Through critical engagement with (history) writing and other sources on subcultures by contemporaries, veterans, popular media and researchers, it aims to establish: how stories and histories of subcultures emerge and become canonized through the process of mythification; which developments and actors are crucial in this process; and finally how researchers like historians, sociologists, and anthropologists should deal with these myths and myth-making processes. By considering these issues and questions in relation to mythmaking, this book provides new insights on how to research the identity, history, and cultural memory of youth subcultures.

Autorentext
Bart van der Steen is University Lecturer at Leiden University's Institute of History, the Netherlands. His previous book with Palgrave, A European Youth Revolt: European Perspectives on Youth Protest and Social Movements in the 1980s, published in 2016. Thierry P.F. Verburgh is research coordinator of the Center for Applied Research of the Faculty of Digital Media and Creative Industries at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (AUAS), the Netherlands. His research focuses on the social interactions and epistemology (e.g. perceived reality, myth-making, and fundamentalism) of youth cultures, generations, and social movements. ****

Inhalt
1. Introduction: Researching Subcultures, Myth and Memory- Bart van der Steen andThierry P.F. VerburghPart I: Conceptual Clarifications2. Situating 'Subculture': On the Origins and Limits of The term for Understanding Youth Cultures- Andy Bennett3. Myth and Authenticity in Subculture Studies- J. Patrick Williams4. Punk Legends: Cultural Representation and Ostension- Jeffrey Debies-Carl5. 'Bad to the Bone' The Myth and Mystique of the Motorcycle Gang- Bill Osgerby6. 'Two Baltimores' and the Conflicting Representations of Baltimore's Wild Out Wheelie Boyz- Glen WoodPart II: Subcultural Myth and Memory7. Remembering Andre 'Angel' Melendez: Rave Subculture's Contested/Conflicted Memory of a Racially Motivated Murder- Yamil Avivi García8. 'From the Dark Past': The Contested Historiography of Violence in Norwegian Black Metal- Ross Hagen9. Between Revolution and the Market: Bob Marley and the Cultural Politics of the Youth Icon- Jeremy PrestholdtPart III: Punk, Personal and Subcultural Memory10. Memories of Being Punk in West Germany: Personal and Shared Recollections in Life Stories- Knud Andresen11. Mapping Subcultures from Scratch: Moving Beyond the Mythology of Dutch Post-Punk- Richard Foster12. Imagining and Performing Marginalization: Hip Hop and the Arab Spring of 2011- Igor Johannsen13. 'Soaking up the Punky-Funky All-Feel of Eastern Kreuzberg': Myth-Making, Preference Construction, and Youth Cultures- Thierry P.F. Verburgh