Cosmopolitanisms: New Thinking and New Directions Book

An interesting and one of the first academics attempts at grabbing the goth subculture. Professor Hodkinson has the advantage of being both an academician and a goth. There have certainly been many "insider versions" over the years and interesting chronicles of gothic rock and goths (cfr. Mick Mercer's books), and regular sensationslist or dismissive accounts in pop culture magazines and books, but few attempts to study goth subculture. Hodkinson covers most aspects of goth suclture, attempting to define its style and its use of media. If anything, the book is marred by being a little too dry in style. In that sense, the book is aimed at sociologists and the academic world, rather than on goths or people interested in popular culture.