Popular music and youth culture : music, identity and place

Research into the relationship between popular music and youth culture within the context of debates about the spatial dimensions of identity. It begins with a clear, 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 new perspective on the ways in which popular music is appropriated as a cultural resource by young people, using as a springboard a series of ethnographic studies of dance music, rap, bhangra and rock in Nepal, Jamaica, Hong Kong, Israel, Denmark, Australia, Germany and England. Recensie opgenomen in: Boekmancahier.12(2000)46(dec.424-427)