Popular Music and Identity

Popular Music and Identity

1. Into



2.Theories

Adorno

Andy Bennett - Popular music and youth culture

Shuker - Understanding Popular music
Andy Bennett - Popular music and youth culture



Black and White Identity and mixing

Subcultures e.g. Punk, Teddy Boys, Rasta’s, Glam Rock, Skinheads, Mods,
The Young Ones

Gender

Class

Politics

Large scale- Beatle’s/ Small scale- Punk

3. Examples


Small Cultures
Punk
Where? England, New York
Why? On hope in the future, did not agee with polotices, What was in the pop chart?
When?
Who? Bands? Murder Dolls Sex Pistols People
What made you part of the Identity? (What you need to belong?) Clothes, Attitude, Life style?
“Punk bands relied on live shows to establish an identit...