1. Popular Music and Contemporary U.S. Culture
... apparent absorption of so-called underground subcultures into the mainstream. Sarah Thornton attempts to rework the term into her analysis of dance music cultures in Britain by using the phrase club cultures and discussing the significance of subcultural capital in the EDM world. In contrast to subcultural approaches, the use of the term scene featured in many popular music studies of ... the necessity for less rigid accounts of groups of popular music fans. Bennett coins the term neo-tribes to describe groups of young dance music fans. He suggests that the club setting can be viewed as...
- Word Count: 2711
- Approx Pages: 11
- Has Bibliography
- Grade Level: Graduate