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Popular Music and Youth Culture - Music, Identity and Place (Hardcover)
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Music- and style-centred youth cultures are now a familiar aspect
of everyday life in countries as far apart around the globe as
Nepal and Jamaica, Hong Kong and Israel, Denmark and Australia.
This lucid and original text provides a lively and wide-ranging
account of the relationship between popular music and youth culture
within the context of debates about the spatial dimensions of
identity. It begins with a clear and comprehensive survey, and
critical evaluation, of the existing body of literature on youth
culture and popular music developed by sociologists and cultural
and media theorists. It then develops a fresh perspective on the
ways in which popular music is appropriated as a cultural resource
by young people, using as a springboard a series of original
ethnographic studies of dance music, rap, bhangra and rock.
Bennett's original research material is carefully contextualised
within a wider international literature on youth styles, local
spaces and popular music but it serves to illustrate graphically
how styles of music and their attendant stylistic innovations are
appropriated and `lived out' by young people in particular social
spaces. Music, Bennett argues, is produced and consumed by young
people in ways that both inform their sense of self and also serve
to construct the social world in which their identities operate.
With its comprehensive coverage of youth and music studies and its
important new insights, Popular Music and Youth Culture is
essential reading for undergraduate and postgraduate students in
sociology, cultural studies, media studies and popular music
studies. Dr ANDY BENNETT is lecturer in Sociology at the University
of Kent at Canterbury. He has published articles on aspects of
youth culture, popular music, local identity and music and
ethnicity in a number of journals, including Sociological Review,
Media Culture and Society and Popular Music. He is currently
co-editing a book on guitar cultures.
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