The 2008 Popular Culture Association National Conference
Thirty-Eighth Annual Meeting

Marriot Hotel,
San Francisco, California

March 19-22, 2008

Submission deadline: November 9, 2007

CALL FOR PAPERS:

Subcultural Style and Identity is a significant and influential component of contemporary fashion and dress. Information can be retrieved from the media, fashion, design, music, social, economic and other cultural histories, as well as sexuality. Subcultural dress is ultimately associated with the wearer's identity and lifestyle, whose attitude, hairstyle, makeup and context form a critical part in the examination of dress.

Papers will explore the way in which subcultural style impacts mainstream mass fashion, high fashion and the music industry, all of which have drawn inspiration and in return fed ideas back to the street. It will examine the way in which subcultural groups appropriate items from mainstream culture subverting its original meaning.

Papers are sought from those engaged in the fields of cultural studies, sociology, media, film, music and fashion studies.

Please send a short biography and a 200 word abstract to Vicki Karaminas.