Music and youth culture / Dan Laughey.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Laughey, Dan.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Music and youth--Great Britain.

Music and youth.

Youth--Great Britain--Social life and customs.

Youth.

Manners and customs.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

xi, 248 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm

Other Title:

Music & youth culture

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2006]

Summary:

Music and Youth Culture offers a groundbreaking account of how music interacts with young people's everyday lives. Drawing on interviews with and observations of youth groups together with archival research, it explores young people's enactment of music tastes and performances, and how these are articulated through narratives and literacies.

An extensive review of the field reveals an unhealthy emphasis on committed, fanatical, spectacular youth music cultures such as rock or punk. On the contrary, this book argues that ideas about youth subcultures and club cultures no longer apply to today's young generation. Rather, archival findings show that the music and dance cultures of youth in 1930s and 1940s Britain share more in common with youth today than the countercultures and subcultures of the 1960s and 1970s.

By focusing on the relationship between music and social interactions, the book addresses questions that are scarcely considered by studies stuck in the youth cultural worlds of subcultures, club cultures and post-subcultures. What are the main influences on young people's music tastes? How do young people use music to express identities and emotions? To what extent can today's youth and their music seem radical and progressive? And how is the 'special relationship' between music and youth culture played out in everyday leisure, education and workplaces?

Contents:

Youth as a concept 5

Situating music in youth culture 7

2 Subculture, club cultures and post-subcultures: music/social interactions? 14

Culture to subculture 15

Youth subcultures 21

Rock, pop and fan cultures 28

Club and taste cultures 37

Subcultural capital and omnivorous narratives 39

Neo-tribalism 43

Post-subcultures 45

3 Early youth cultures of music and dance 55

Mass-Observation and the Worktown Project 58

Theorising everyday life: a counter-tradition 60

Promenade performances 65

Music and dancing in Britain, 1936-1949 68

Co-present promenade performances 69

Mediated promenade performances 76

Localisation and intergenerational youth 80

4 Towards everyday consumption and production: approaching music audiences and performances 87

Everyday consumer and producer practices 89

Diffused audiences and performances 95

Localities 98

Scenes 100

Self-identities 102

Self-presentations 106

5 Music media uses and influences 115

Uses 116

Intensive media use 117

Casual media consumption 122

Relating to stars and genres 126

Influences 132

Family influence 132

Peer group exchange 136

The 'publicisation' of media consumption contexts 139

School and college 139

Work 143

Other public contexts 144

Productive consumer literacies 145

Everyday life narratives 149

6 Public music practices 157

Consumption and production 158

Exclusiveness 159

Inclusiveness 162

Eclecticism 166

Accessibility and involvement 170

Presentation and identification 179

Impression management 180

Impression judgement 181

Age play 184

Media influences 185

Space and place 190

Promenade performances 193

7 Everyday youth music cultures and media 203

A situational interactionist model 203

Intergenerational narratives 209

Localised performances 213

8 Overall conclusions 217

Appendix Interview Schedules and Transcript Notation Conventions 222.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0748623809

0748623817

OCLC:

62177699