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.

Subculture--Great Britain.

Subculture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (261 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2006.

Language Note:

English

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

Contents:

COVER; COPYRIGHT; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Preface; CHAPTER 1 Introduction; CHAPTER 2 Subculture, Club Cultures and Post- Subcultures: Music/Social Interactions?; CHAPTER 3 Early Youth Cultures of Music and Dance; CHAPTER 4 Towards Everyday Consumption and Production: Approaching Music Audiences and Performances; CHAPTER 5 Music Media Uses and Influences; CHAPTER 6 Public Music Practices; CHAPTER 7 Everyday Youth Music Cultures and Media; CHAPTER 8 Overall Conclusions; Appendix: Interview Schedules and Transcript Notation Conventions; Bibliography; Index;

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-7486-5303-1

1-280-64315-3

9786610643158

0-7486-2638-7

OCLC:

271819612