Profane Culture: Updated Edition

(Paperback, Updated Edition)

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A classic of British cultural studies, Profane Culture takes the reader into the worlds of two important 1960s youth cultures--the motor-bike boys and the hippies. The motor-bike boys were working-class motorcyclists who listened to the early rock 'n' roll of the late 1950s. In contrast, the hippies were middle-class drug users with long hair and a

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"A forgotten treasure trove that needs to be recovered."--Mats Trondman, Anna Lund, and Stefan Lund, European Journal of Cultural Studies "Willis masterfully shows how objects and selves interact, indicating to one another the available paths to follow... I hope a new generation of scholars reads this updated edition and aims to follow its path."--Claudio E. Benzecry, Contemporary Sociology

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Paul E. Willis, an ethnographer and cultural theorist, is a lecturer with the rank of professor in the Department of Sociology at Princeton University. He is a founding editor and current joint editor of the journal Ethnography and the author of Learning to Labor: How Working Class Kids Get Working Class Jobs, among other books.