Edith Music

Subcultures and Contemporary Music

The study of music subculture and subculture itself has been greatly debated since the Birmingham School first began to explore the subject. The Birmingham School emerged in Britain after the industrial revolution. It drew its conclusions from studying subculture via anthropology, history, literary criticism and media studies. The school of thought was greatly influenced by the Chicago school and the Frankfurt school(Mattelart and Neveu 2006) The Chicago school itself was born out of the study of urban social behaviour, deviance More