"Every Home Is Wired":
1 -- The Net in Relation to Music Subcultures
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In today's fragmented social environment, however, there also are certain problems with this view of various subcultures underneath one central and dominant culture. Gary Clarke criticises "a level of abstraction which fails to consider subcultural flux and the dynamic nature of styles; second, and as a result, the theory rests upon the consideration of the rest of society as being straight, incorporated in a consensus, and willing to scream undividedly loud in any moral panic" (84). However, as the mainstream gradually vanishes "the absolute distinction between subcultures and 'straights' is increasingly difficult to maintain: the current diversity of styles makes a mockery of subcultural analysis as it stands" (G. Clarke 93). Theories of the relation between subcultures and the 'parent' culture may therefore need adjustment; those on the internal makeup of subcultures still remain valid, though. Bit 60
The internal structure of any particular subculture is characterised by an extreme orderliness: each part is organically related to other parts and it is through the fit between them that the subcultural member makes sense of the world. For instance, it was the homology between an alternative value system ('Tune in, turn on, drop out'), hallucinogenic drugs and acid rock which made the hippy culture cohere as a 'whole way of life' for individual hippies. (Hebdige 113)
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