... . Popular music is ubiquitous; from shopping malls and advertising to gymnasiums/fitness classes and political campaigns, popular music is a common feature of people's everyday lives and a significant aspect of consumer culture. For fans and enthusiasts, popular music can be a leisure-time pursuit occurring on evenings or weekends; alternatively, it can constitute a lifestyle, or way of life (e.g., Deadheads-a group of ... genres such as heavy metal and punk, which entailed a do-it-yourself (DIY) ethos and emphasized that anyone could pick up an instrument, regardless of skill, and becom...

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