Youth Consumption: Towards an Integration of Structure, Culture and Agency
By , Bath Spa University (March 2008)Section: Communication & Media
Subjects: Sociology of Culture and Media, Cultural Studies, Sociology, Consumption.
People: Frankfurt School , Bourdieu, Pierre.
Key Topics: agency, identity, entertainment.
Abstract
Youth, media and popular music studies have developed in separate fields of research, resulting in a lack of integration of key areas of enquiry, such as the relationship between the cultural and structural in youth music consumption and the role of media industries in ‘framing’ such a process. A more recent focus on popular music as a media culture suggest a way forward in exploring links between production, mediation and consumption of music and youth consumer practices. This article reviews three such frameworks: (i) the production of consumption, (ii) production of culture/cultures of production and (iii) cultures of consumption, evaluating their contribution to a more integrated understanding of how youth consume music as a structurally and culturally mediated process. Controversies over youth ‘download culture’ and evidence of regulatory changes in the global music industry and its impact on how youth consumers can access music media, underlines the need to pursue a research integration agenda, drawing popular music and youth consumption research closer together. Yet it remains the case that both approaches exhibit a structural vs. cultural divide over youth consumption and its relationship to the global music industry, offering optimism and pessimism in equal measure.DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-9020.2008.00103.x
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