Youth Subcultures: Exploring Underground America (A Longman Topics Reader)

Youth Subcultures Arielle Greenberg LONGMAN TOPICS are brief, thought-provoking readers on a single complex, compelling, topic. Featuring about 30 full-length reading selections, these volumes are generally half the size and half the cost of standard composition readers. Youth Subculturesby Arielle Greenberg uses a cultural studies lens to explore contemporary American youth subcultures such as skateboarding, punk, Goth, and raves in a brief, flexible, and inexpensive reader. Features High-interest readings on American youth subcultures offer students the opportunity to be content experts right from the start of the semester and approach their research through personal life experiences. The variety of writing genres opens possibilities for a wide array of writing strategies that includes oral history, academic research, and memoir. Essays by college students as well as professional journalists and scholars in each chapter provide students with realistic models for their own writing. Post-reading "Notebook" questions provide discussion questions and writing opportunities. "Suggestions for Further Reading" offer research launching points. An alternate Rhetorical Table of Contents accommodates multiple teaching approaches for maximum instructor flexibility.Arielle Greenberg is the author of 'Youth Subcultures: Exploring Underground America (A Longman Topics Reader)', published 2006 under ISBN 9780321241948 and ISBN 0321241940.