Counterculture and Youth: The Music of Protest : A Sociology of Alternative Culture & Music in Bengal

ISBN-13: 9783659882876 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 144 str.

Kamalini Mukherjee

Opis

This book is the result of years of research in the field of youth culture and its relationship with music in Bengal. It follows the history of counterculture, and its relationship with alternative music. The work uses secondary references for review of literature, and primary data collected and analysed by the author from her fieldwork in Kolkata and its suburbs. The book puts forth arguments on the trajectory of countercultural history in Bengal, and its effects on the youth expression through modern Bengali music. It also reflects upon the era of Western countercultural influences which have consequently shaped the development of alternative music in Bengal. The work dwells upon facts and data, and analyses them in the context of its theoretical parlance.

O autorze

Kamalini Mukherjee, PhD, Jawaharlal Nehru University. She has been working on the issues of marginalisation, counterculture and exclusion based on Indian cultural differences for her University research work. This work is the result of four years of research, based on her own fieldwork in Bengal, and the culmination of a long personal interest.