A classic of British cultural studies, "Profane Culture" takes
the reader into the worlds of two important 1960s youth
cultures--the motor-bike boys and the hippies. The motor-bike boys
were working-class motorcyclists who listened to the early rock 'n'
roll of the late 1950s. In contrast, the hippies were middle-class
drug users with long hair and a love of progressive music. Both
groups were involved in an unequal but heroic fight to produce
meaning and their own cultural forms in the face of a larger
society dominated by the capitalist media and commercialism. They
were pioneers of cultural experimentation, the self-construction of
identity, and the curating of the self, which, in different ways,
have become so widespread today.
In "Profane Culture," Paul Willis develops an important and
still very contemporary theory and methodology for understanding
the constructions of lived and popular culture. His new preface
discusses the ties between the cultural moment explored in the book
and today.
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