Interpreting Subcultures

This video overviews the sociological anthology, Interpreting Subcultures: Approaching, Contextualizing, and Embodying Sense-Making Practices in Alternative Cultures, Edited by J. Patrick Williams (2024), published by Bristol University Press, UK. These chapters feature ethnographic research on global music subcultures, but primarily focus on the adoption of academic key concepts within the subcultures and in relation to academic research. The primary layer focuses on “interpretation,” how academics and subcultures interpret meaning within their contexts. The anthology also focuses on alternative resistance cultures in Asia, as well as the west (US, UK). This contributes to the field of subcultural studies as well as ethnographic methods.

Timeline:
00:00—00:18 Introduction
00:19—3:58 Chapter 1: Making sense of subcultures
3:59—5:28 Chapter 2: Subculture, scene, lifestyle or movement? Conceptualizing straight edge
5:29—6:15 Chapter 3: Ghosts in the machine
6:16—8:01 chapter 4: No more heroes: Portuguese punk
8:02—10:35 Chapter 5: Still crazy after all those years: Korea
10:36—14:09 Chapter 6: Interpreting Chinese punk
14:10—15:27 Chapter 7: The dynamic meaning of subculture among DIY Indonesian musicians
15:28—16:54 Chapter 8: That’s not punk
16:55—18:32 Chapter 9: Let’s all be friends
18:33—19:33 Chapter 10: Intimacy, exchange, and friendship as sensitizing concepts
19:34—21:33 Chapter 11: Concluding chapter
21:34—22:33 Conclusion