{"id":4674,"date":"2008-11-29T07:03:11","date_gmt":"2008-11-29T12:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=4674"},"modified":"2010-11-25T05:08:57","modified_gmt":"2010-11-25T10:08:57","slug":"co-opting-subcultures-goth-punk-barbie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2008\/11\/29\/co-opting-subcultures-goth-punk-barbie\/","title":{"rendered":"Co-opting Subcultures: Goth Punk Barbie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Corey O. sent in a link to the Hard Rock Cafe&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hardrock.com\/Estore\/product.asp?catalog_name=Hardrock+Online&amp;category_name=Whats+New&amp;product_id=HR+Goth+Punk+Barbie\">Goth Punk Barbie<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2008\/11\/pnkrckbarbie_dt1.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4673 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2008\/11\/pnkrckbarbie_dt1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"375\" height=\"355\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a good example of the appropriation of subcultures. Barbie represents mainstream ideals of American feminine beauty&#8211;ideals that are safe and predictable and therefore, at least in theory, incongruent with the goth punk subculture. But here that subculture is stripped of any real content; it&#8217;s just a fashion statement, not a challenge to the mainstream world Barbie represents.<\/p>\n<p>For other examples of the commodification of punk or alternative subcultures, see <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2007\/11\/30\/co-opting-punk-culture\/\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2008\/01\/07\/commodification-of-alternative-cultures\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks, Corey O.!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Corey O. sent in a link to the Hard Rock Cafe&#8217;s Goth Punk Barbie: It&#8217;s a good example of the appropriation of subcultures. Barbie represents mainstream ideals of American feminine beauty&#8211;ideals that are safe and predictable and therefore, at least in theory, incongruent with the goth punk subculture. But here that subculture is stripped of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[227,1711,23622],"class_list":["post-4674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-commodification","tag-toysgames","tag-social-construction-symbols"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4674"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29953,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4674\/revisions\/29953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}