1st Edition

Beyond Subculture Pop, Youth and Identity in a Postcolonial World

By Rupa Huq Copyright 2006
228 Pages
by Routledge

232 Pages
by Routledge

232 Pages
by Routledge

Presenting a new approach to the study of youth culture and popular music, Beyond Subculture re-examines the link between music and subcultures and asks the question; in an ageing world, can pop music still be an automatic metaphor for youth culture? Using case studies and first-hand interviews with consumer and producers including Noel Gallagher and Talvin Singh, Rupa Huq investigates a... Read more

1. Rethinking Subcultures: a critique for the 21st century

2. Age and culture: Diversifying discourses beyond subculture

3. Theorising youth pop music meanings, production and consumptiopn beyond subcultures

4. World in motion: Bhangra, post-bhangra and Rai as second generation sounds in inauthentic times

5. Deconstructing difference in dance music: subculture and club culture at the turn of the century

6. Selling, selling out or resisting dominant discourses? Rap and the uses of hip hop culture

7. White noise: identity and nation in grunge, Britpop and beyond

8. Conclusion: rethinking youth and pop beyond subculture

Biography

Rupa Huq