TABB Database

Full Record for Text No. 611


Author 1:Paul Willis
Title:Common Culture: Symbolic Work at Play in the Everyday Cultures of the Young
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Edited by:
Place:Boulder
Publisher:Westview Press
Year:1990
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Pages:
Location:TABB
Synopsis:Willis's book, written with Simon Jones, Joyce Canaan and Geoff Hurd, is concerned with leisure activities in youth culture which function as 'symbolic work'. The TABB folders contain only excerpts from the book; these refer, among others, to (black) music, DJ-ing, fashion and hairstyles.
Keyword 1:cultural studies
Keyword 2:identity
Keyword 3:social theory
Keyword 4:society
Keyword 5:music
Keyword 6:popular culture
Keyword 7:youth culture

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