The image of the aging rock-and-roller is not just Paul McCartney and Mick Jagger on stage in their sixties. In his timely book Music, Style, and Aging, cultural sociologist Andy Bennett explains how people move on from youth and effectively grow older with popular music. For many aging followers of rock, punk, and other contemporary popular genres, music is ingrained in their identities. Its meaning is highly personal and intertwined with the individual's biographical development. Bennett studies these fans and how they have changed over time - through fashions, hairstyles, body...
The image of the aging rock-and-roller is not just Paul McCartney and Mick Jagger on stage in their sixties. In his timely book Music, Style, and Agin...
This book brings together thirteen timely essays from across the globe that consider a range of 'mediated youth cultures', covering topics such as the phenomenon of dance imitations on YouTube, the circulation of zines online, the resurgence of roller derby on the social web, drinking cultures, Israeli blogs, Korean pop music, and more.
This book brings together thirteen timely essays from across the globe that consider a range of 'mediated youth cultures', covering topics such as the...
Paganism is rapidly becoming a religious, creative, and political force internationally. It has found one of its most public expressions in popular music, where it is voiced by singers and musicians across rock, folk, techno, goth, metal, Celtic, world, and pop music. With essays ranging across the US, UK, continental Europe, Australia and Asia, 'Pop Pagans' assesses the histories, genres, performances, and communities of pagan popular music. Over time, paganism became associated with the counter culture, satanic and gothic culture, rave and festival culture, ecological consciousness and...
Paganism is rapidly becoming a religious, creative, and political force internationally. It has found one of its most public expressions in popular mu...
Within contemporary youth research there are two dominant streams - a 'transitions' and a 'cultures' perspective. This collection shows that it is no longer possible to understand the experience of young people through these prisms and proposes new conceptual foundations for youth studies, capable of bridging the gap between these approaches.
Within contemporary youth research there are two dominant streams - a 'transitions' and a 'cultures' perspective. This collection shows that it is no ...
This volume explores the ways in which music scenes are not merely physical spaces for the practice of collective musical life but are also inscribed with and enacted through the articulation of cultural memory and emotional geography.
This volume explores the ways in which music scenes are not merely physical spaces for the practice of collective musical life but are also inscribed ...
Popular music is increasingly being represented and celebrated as an aspect of contemporary cultural history and heritage. In many places across the world, popular music heritage sites - including museums, archives, commemorative plaques adorning buildings, and what could be referred to as DIY music heritage initiatives - constitute some of the key ways in which popular music artists, scenes and events are being remembered. Bringing together a selection of wide-ranging contributions, the purpose of this book is to present a number of case studies from Europe and Australia that demonstrate...
Popular music is increasingly being represented and celebrated as an aspect of contemporary cultural history and heritage. In many places across th...
SAGE BENCHMARKS IN CULTURE & SOCIETYSAGE Benchmarks in Culture & Society presents four-volume collections of key classic and contemporary articles on the substantive interdisciplinary topics at the heart of the social sciences. This series explores core topics of research and debate, including cultural theory, representation, identity, popular music and material culture. Each set presents a full contextualizing introduction by the editor and draws upon articles that map out each topic's history and debates, and its theory and methods. This series presents...
SAGE BENCHMARKS IN CULTURE & SOCIETYSAGE Benchmarks in Culture & Society presents four-volume collections of key classi...
This collection brings together perspectives drawn from a range of international scholars who have conducted research into the applications of neo-tribal theory.
This collection brings together perspectives drawn from a range of international scholars who have conducted research into the applications of neo-tri...
