Beyond Subculture

<p>Presenting a new approach to the study of youth culture and popular music, <em>Beyond Subculture</em> 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? </p><p>Using case studies and first-hand interviews with consumer and producers including Noel Gallagher and Talvin Singh, Rupa Huq investigates a series of musically-centred global youth cultures including hip-hop, electronic dance music and bhangra.</p><p>With ‘Generation X’ becoming an increasingly redundant term, this book will help students redefine their ideas of youth culture and will be an invaluable addition to their studies.</p> <p>1. Rethinking Subcultures: a critique for the 21st century</p><p>2. Age and culture: Diversifying discourses beyond subculture</p><p>3. Theorising youth pop music meanings, production and consumptiopn beyond subcultures</p><p>4. World in motion: Bhangra, post-bhangra and Rai as second generation sounds in inauthentic times</p><p>5. Deconstructing difference in dance music: subculture and club culture at the turn of the century</p><p>6. Selling, selling out or resisting dominant discourses? Rap and the uses of hip hop culture</p><p>7. White noise: identity and nation in grunge, Britpop and beyond</p><p>8. Conclusion: rethinking youth and pop beyond subculture</p>