1st Edition

In Garageland Rock, Youth and Modernity

296 Pages
by Routledge

296 Pages
by Routledge

Seeking to understand youth culture through its visual and musical expression, In Garageland presents a pioneering ethnographic study of rock bands and their fans. Topics include class as well as sexual conflicts; mainstream and deviant subcultures, and the complex social, psychological and ethical relationships which exist within youth culture. In Garageland develops the notion of youth... Read more
Introduction; Three Bands – Three Cultures; Oh – In Between; From the Suburbs – Lam Gam; Detached – Chans; Objective Life Conditions; Living in the Late Modern Period; Three Spheres; 3: Subjective Driving Forces; Kurre; Three Themes; The Groups and Their Rock Music; The Band as a Group; Searching Through Symbolic Praxis; Learning Processes in Making Rock Music; Conclusion

Biography

Ove Sernhede, Johan Fornäs, Ulf Lindberg