Something to start an argument with....Ive had a long and fascinating conversation with historian David Fowler, author of the acclaimed book Youth Culture in Modern Britain, who has an intriguing, if controversial, theory that subcultures such as hippy and punk had very little to do with the actual teenagers who participated in them – They were consumers … they were sort of puppets – and were instead informed and controlled by a slightly older, university-educated generation. Youth culture as a kind of transformative, counter-cultural philosophy, it has to be shaped by older people and invariably its by students, he says. Today, the lack of anything equivalent to the radical student movements of the 60s that fed into both the hippy movement and punk means a lack of ideas trickling down into pop culture.
Posted on: Thu, 20 Mar 2014 17:06:37 +0000
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