This book brings together contributions that analyse how subcultural
myths develop and how they can be studied. Through critical engagement
with (history) writing and other sources on subcultures by
contemporaries, veterans, popular media and researchers, it aims to
establish: how stories and histories of subcultures emerge and become
canonized through the process of mythification; which developments and
actors are crucial in this process; and finally how researchers like
historians, sociologists, and anthropologists should deal with these
myths and myth-making processes. By considering these issues and
questions in relation to mythmaking, this book provides new insights on
how to research the identity, history, and cultural memory of youth
subcultures.