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Countercultures and Popular Music, Paperback / softback Book

Countercultures and Popular Music Paperback / softback

Part of the Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series series

Paperback / softback

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’Counterculture’ emerged as a term in the late 1960s and has been re-deployed in more recent decades in relation to other forms of cultural and socio-political phenomena.

This volume provides an essential new academic scrutiny of the concept of ’counterculture’ and a critical examination of the period and its heritage.

Recent developments in sociological theory complicate and problematise theories developed in the 1960s, with digital technology, for example, providing an impetus for new understandings of counterculture.

Music played a significant part in the way that the counterculture authored space in relation to articulations of community by providing a shared sense of collective identity.

Not least, the heady mixture of genres provided a socio-cultural-political backdrop for distinctive musical practices and innovations which, in relation to counterculture ideology, provided a rich experiential setting in which different groups defined their relationship both to the local and international dimensions of the movement, so providing a sense of locality, community and collective identity.

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