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- Title
THE POLITICS OF STREET DANCING.
- Authors
Taylor, Sandra
- Abstract
The article examines the context of the social and economic factors affecting youth in contemporary Australia, and the development of breakdancing groups in Brisbane, Queensland during 1984. It explored the potential for wider cultural change and political change of youth subcultures, like the street breakdancing groups. The author argues against the perspective that popular music is about social control only, produced by the mass media to generate capitalist and consumerist values into a mindless mass audience. It is asserted that youth subcultures emerge as attempts to resolve collectively experienced problems arising from contradictions in the social structure.
- Subjects
AUSTRALIA; BREAK dancing; DANCE; SUBCULTURES; YOUTH; SOCIAL change; YOUTH culture; POPULAR music; SOCIAL structure
- Publication
Social Alternatives, 1985, Vol 4, Issue 4, p35
- ISSN
0155-0306
- Publication type
Article