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Music and Youth Culture offers a groundbreaking account of how music interactswith young peoples everyday lives. Drawing on interviews with and observationsof youth groups together with archival research it explores young peoplesenactment of music tastes and performances and how these are articulatedthrough narratives and literacies. An extensive review of the field reveals anunhealthy emphasis on committed fanatical spectacular youth music culturessuch as rock or punk. On the contrary this book argues that ideas about youthsubcultures and club cultures no longer apply to todays young generation.Rather archival findings show that the music and dance cultures of youth in1930s and 1940s Britain share more in common with youth today than thecountercultures and subcultures of the 1960s and 1970s. By focusing on therelationship between music and social interactions the book addressesquestions that are scarcely considered by studies stuck in the youth culturalworlds of subcultures club cultures and postsubculturesWhat are the main influences on young peoples music tastes? How do youngpeople use music to express identities and emotions? To what extent can todaysyouth and their music seem radical and progressive? And how is the specialrelationship between music and youth culture played out in everyday leisureeducation and work places?Features The first comprehensive study of popular music and youth cultural studies Includes rare historical work on pre1950s youth cultures Contains original photographs and diagrammatic illustrations. «
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