Youth Culture: Identity in a Postmodern World

List of Contributors vii

Acknowledgments x

1 Introduction: Generation X, Youth Culture, and Identity 1
Jonathon S. Epstein

2 Teenage Sexuality, Body Politics, and the Pedagogy of Display 24
Henry A. Giroux

3 Teens and Schools: Who is Falling through the Cracks and Why 56
Sarah Nixon-Ponder

4 Beavis and Butt-Head: No Future for Postmodern Youth 74
Steven Best and Douglas Kellner

5 The Industrial Identity Crisis: the Failure of a Newly Forming subculture to Identity Itself 100
David A. Locher

6 Identity and Status Stratification in Deadhead Subculture 118
Robert Sardiello

7 “Don’t Need you:” Rethinking Identity Politics and Separatism from a Grrrl Perspective 148
Mary Celeste Kearney

8 “Frances Farmer Will Have Her Revenge on Seattle:” Pan-capitalism and Alternative Rock 189
Javier Santiago-Lucerna

9 “This Ain’t No Disco” … or is it? Youth culture and the Rave Phenomenon 195
Lori Tomlinson

10 Growing up Punk: Meaning and Commitment Careers on a Contemporary Youth Subculture 212
Linda Andes

11 “When It All Changed:” Cyberpunk and the Baby Boom’s Rejection of Religious Institutions 232
Samuel R. Smith

12 Social Justice and Sexism for Adolescents: a Content Analysis of Lyrical Themes and Gender Presentations in Canadian Heavy Metal Music, 1985-1991 263
Bruce K. Friesen and Warren Helfrich

13 Incubus: Male Songwriters’ Portrayal of Women’s Sexuality in Pop Metal Music 286
Lisa J. Sloat

14 Explorations in Youth Culture. Amateur Stripping: What We Know and What We Don’t 302
Thomas C. Calhoun, Julie Ann Harms Cannon and Rhonda Fisher

Index 327