Beyond Subculture Pop, Youth and Identity in a Postcolonial World [Hardcover]

Presenting a new approach to the study of youth culture and popular music, Beyond Subculturere-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?

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.

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.

1. Rethinking Subcultures: a critique for the 21st century

2. Age and culture: Diversifying discourses beyond subculture

3. Theorising youth pop music meanings, production and consumptiopn beyond subcultures

4. World in motion: Bhangra, post-bhangra and Rai as second generation sounds in inauthentic times

5. Deconstructing difference in dance music: subculture and club culture at the turn of the century

6. Selling, selling out or resisting dominant discourses? Rap and the uses of hip hop culture

7. White noise: identity and nation in grunge, Britpop and beyond

8. Conclusion: rethinking youth and pop beyond subculture