5 things I have learnt from this article: Article on Youth Sub Culture
- In the mid-80's people were defined and grouped depending on the kind of music they enjoyed listening to and the clothes they wore. For example: goths, punks and soul boys.
- However, in 2014 the amount of youth cults has hugely decreased.
- A sociologist at the University of Sussex believe this has something to do with Britain's changing class structure.
- David Fowler, author of the acclaimed book Youth Culture in Modern Britain thinks that some subcultures had very little to do with the actual teenagers who participated in them – "They were consumers … they were sort of puppets" – and were controlled by a slightly older educated generation.
- The main reason for this is the internet and the way it affects people's behaviours and beliefs.
- Monthly magazine Q is down to 50,000 copies a month in comparison to its monthly figures of 200,000 in the 90's.
- NME has produced a tablet version to suit the new digital age, but surprisingly only has 1,200 subscribers.
- The music press has not been picking up younger generations of readers in the way it used to for quite some time.
- It can be argued that the amount of people reading both Melody Maker and NME decreased when they stopped with the irreverent writing and long features in the late 90's.
- If young people don't make the effort to become ‘someone’ or to be different, they will miss out on the opportunity to create a public persona and be independent, losing out in the long run.
