The Meaning Of Style ALTERNATIVE TV IGOR BASIN MICHAEL "PANKOW" BOEHLKE BOONARAAAS! BOY FROM BRAZIL SEZGIN BOYNIK BUZZCOCKS CHEETAH CHROME CZD DEAN DIRG RONALD GALENZA HENRYK GERICKE THOMAS GROETZ DICK HEBDIGE ALFRED HILSBERG STEWART HOME SIEGFRIED KALUS THE KIDS THOMAS LAU MARLENE MARDER MALCOLM MCLAREN LEGS MCNEIL PADELUUN BERT PAPENFUSS MARK PERRY HARRY RAG ROCKET FROM THE TOMBS SEDLMEIR ANDY SHERNOFF MARTY THAU TOKYO SEX DESTRUCTION VIVA L'AMERICAN DEATH RAY MUSIC Born 1951 in West London, Dick Hebdige became a Mod in the middle of the sixties. He was a passionate member of this very exclusive British youth movement. Dick Hebdige first encountered punk during his studies in the Center of Contemporary Cultural Studies in Birmingham which was founded in 1964 and devoted to working class and minority culture and its objection to hegemonic cultural standards with subculture. He wrote a book called "Subculture: The Meaning of Style": It was translated into nine languages and became an international bestseller with over a 100.000 copies sold. Dick Hebdige is currently teaching at the University of California in Santa Barbara. He is famous for giving entertaining lectures: Like a DJ he is mixing scientific texts with slides, music- and video footage. At the Punk! Kongress Dick Hebdige will talk about his personal experiences and the results of his latest research. more... Dick Hebdige „It was important to write about punk while it was happening. I didn't want to write about it when it was already dead.“ From an interview with Christian Höller and Ralf Niemczyk in Spex.