Music and Youth Culture

by Dan Laughey

Book Overview

Music and Youth Culture offers a groundbreaking account of how music interacts with young people's everyday lives. Drawing on interviews with and observations of youth groups together with archival research, it explores young people's enactment of music tastes and performances, and how these are articulated through narratives and literacies. An extensive review of the field reveals an unhealthy emphasis on committed, fanatical, spectacular...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0748623817
• ISBN13: 9780748623815
• Release Date: January 2006
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.5" x 9.1"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher