ANDY BENNETT is Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Surrey. He is author of Popular Music and Youth Culture (Palgrave, 2000) and co-editor of Guitar Cultures (Berg, 2001). He is Chair of the UK and Ireland branch of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM) and co-convenor of the British Sociological Association Youth Study Group.

KEITH KAHN- HARRIS received his doctorate from Goldsmith College on the global Extreme Metal music scene. He has been a Fellow at the Mandel School for Advanced Educational Leadership, Jerusalem and a visiting scholar at Monash University Australian Centre for Jewish Civilisation, Melbourne. He currently works as an Associate Lecturer for the Open University and as an independent research consultant, specialising in the field of Jewish communal and educational development.

Introduction; A.Bennett & [...]-Harris
SECTION 1: THEORETICAL READINGS
Culture, Subculture and Social Organisation; P.J.Martin
Fragmented Culture and Subcultures; D.Chaney
SECTION 2: EMPIRICAL STUDIES
'It's Like Canada Reduced': Setting the Scene in Montreal; [...]
Dance Nations: Rethinking Youth Subcultural Theory; B.Carrington & B.Wilson
Tourists and Travellers? 'Subcultures', Reflexive Identities and Neo-Tribal Sociality; P.Sweetman
Teenage Girls' 'Bedroom Culture': Codes Versus Zones; S.Lincoln
Unspectacular Subculture?: Transgression and Mundanity in the Global Extreme Metal Scene; [...]-Harris
Youth Strategies for Glocal Living: Space, Power and Communication in Everyday Cultural Practice; H.Pilkington
The Goth Scene and (Sub)Cultural Substance; P.Hodkinson
Buffy Night at the Seven Stars: A 'Subcultural' Happening at the 'Glocal' Level; G.Bloustien
Virtual Subculture? Youth, Identity and the Internet; A.Bennett
Afterword; [...]
Bibliography
Index.