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Volume 11, Issue 2
  • ISSN: 2040-4417
  • E-ISSN: 2040-4425

Abstract

This article sets forth a performance studies framework for subcultural research: . This embodied epistemology brings together Diana Taylor’s paradigm with interdisciplinary perspectives on style to provide a means for researchers to explore the ways in which style is constitutive of subcultural life. Twenty-five years of involvement in Los Angeles’s vintage Jamaican music scene and four years of fieldwork – comprised of participant observation, oral history interviews and archival research – undergird my theorization. To communicate individual agency and subcultural traditions of style, this article explores a single case study situated within my larger research setting. Because scenarios of style supports embodied, situated understandings of knowledge and is contextually adaptable, this article posits its broader relevancy for fashion studies research.

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