Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; LIST OF FIGURES; PREFACE; INTRODUCTION; The Authors; The Project; The Theoretical Fields; Qualitative Methods; To the Reader; THREE BANDS -- THREE CULTURES; OH -- IN BETWEEN; Facts about OH; Introduction; History; The OH Culture; Being yourself; Power and powerlessness; Us and them; Order and chaos; Style; Appearance; Interaction; Music; Musical taste; OH's own music; FROM THE SUBURBS -- LAM GAM; Facts about Lam Gam; An early meeting; Bergslunden; The situation of youth in Bergslunden; The Ark; The Ark culture; A concert at the Ark
The history of Lam GamA rehearsal with Lam Gam; Dissolution; Lam Gam's music; DETACHED -- CHANS; Facts about Chans; Commuting to the cottage; Villaholmen; History; The Chans culture; Cultural tastes; Chans' own music; OBJECTIVE LIFE CONDITIONS; LIVING IN THE LATE MODERN PERIOD; Prehistory; The children of the boom; The Late Modern crises; THREE SPHERES; The family; The school; Leisure; Spaces for identity work; SUBJECTIVE DRIVING FORCES; KURRE; THREE THEMES; Authority; Work; Sexuality and living together; THE GROUPS AND THEIR ROCK MUSIC; THE BAND AS A GROUP 201
SEARCHING THROUGH SYMBOLIC PRAXISSearching; Rock as symbolic praxis; Objective sources; Socio-cultural sources; Subjective sources; Excursus: Adolescence as a second birth; LEARNING PROCESSES IN MAKING ROCK MUSIC; Learning types; Learning in the external world; Learning in the shared world; Learning in the inner world; The complexity of learning; Excursus: communication; Modern possibilities; Resistance and alternative public spheres; CONCLUSION; Why rock?; Collective autonomy; Alternative ideals; Narcissistic enjoyment; The youth debate; Serious play; Active searching
Necessary norm experimentsYouth work; The complexities of learning; Communications between different spheres; Learning to resist; Youth research; Polydimensional content; Theoretical openness; Strategic self-reflection; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX
Summary
Seeking to understand youth culture through its visual and musical expression, In Garageland presents a pioneering ethnographic study of rock bands and their fans. Topics include class as well as sexual conflicts; mainstream and deviant subcultures, and the complex social, psychological and ethical relationships which exist within youth culture. In Garageland develops the notion of youth culture research as a way of mirroring our grown-up identities and of staking out the limits of late modern culture in general
