This book is an attempt to subject the various youth-protest movements of Britain in the last 15 years to the sort of Marxist, structuralist, semiotic analytical techniques propagated by, above all, Ronald Barthes. General Editor's Preface, Acknowledgements, Introduction: Subculture and Style, From Culture to Hegemony, Some Case Studies, Holiday in the Sun: Mister Rotten Makes the Grade, Boredom in Babylon, Back to Africa, The Rastafarian Solution, Reggae and Rastafarianism, Exodus: A Double Crossing, Hipsters and Beats and Teddy Boys, Home-Grown Cool: The Style of the Mods, White Skins and Black Masks, Glam and Glitter Rock: Albino Camp and Other Diversions, Bleached Roots: Punks and White ''Ethnicity'', A Reading, The Function of Subculture, Specificity: Two Types of Teddy Boy, The Sources of Style, Subculture: The Unnatural Break, Two Forms of Incorporation, Style as Intentional Communication, Style as Bricolage, Style as Signifying Practice, O.K. Its Culture but is it Art?, Conclusion, References, Bibliography, Suggested Further Reading, Index.