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  • © 1989

Zoot Suits and Secondhand Dresses

Anthology of Fashion and Music

Editors:

  1. Angela McRobbie

    1. Ealing College of Higher Education, UK

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Part of the book series: Youth Questions (YQ)

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Table of contents (22 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xx
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  2. Frontiers

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. The Zoot Suit and Style Warfare

      • Stuart Cosgrove
      Pages 3-22

  3. Transgressions

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 119-119
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    4. The Best Uniforms

      • Marek Kohn
      Pages 141-149

    5. Heroin, the Needle and the Politics of the Body

      • Martin Chalmers
      Pages 150-155

    6. Wild Style: Graffiti Painting

      • Atlanta, Alexander
      Pages 156-168

    7. The Age of Plunder

      • Jon Savage
      Pages 169-180
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About this book

Zoot Suits and Secondhand Dresses brings together a range of previously published and specially commissioned articles on the expanding field of popular culture. The contributors' themes include how fashion and the body can reflect both resourcefulness and rebellion, the youth culture of the 1980s, music from punk and beyond and the meanings of other popular images and icons.
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Editors and Affiliations

  • Ealing College of Higher Education, UK

    Angela McRobbie

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Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Zoot Suits and Secondhand Dresses

  • Book Subtitle: Anthology of Fashion and Music

  • Editors: Angela McRobbie

  • Series Title: Youth Questions

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-19999-0

  • Publisher: Red Globe Press London

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave Social & Cultural Studies Collection, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Macmillan Publishers Limited 1989

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XX, 304

  • Additional Information: Previously published under the imprint Palgrave

  • Topics: Cultural Studies

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