Postkiwi

Youth Culture: Identity in a Postmodern World, edited by Jonathon S. Epstein. Another book from Fuzz Kitto’s library I hadn’t seen before.

Written in 1998 and published by Blackwell Publishers in the UK.

Epstein provides a helpful introduction to Generation X, youth culture and identity.

I was fascinated with Steven Best and Douglas Kellner’s article on “Beavis and Butt-Head” - they look at the impact of popular TV media on youth.

Other topics in the book include sexuality & body politics, education, industrial-hard core music subculture, deadhead subculture, rave scene, punk and cyberpunk, gender in Canadian heavy metal music, and amateur stripping.