These are some notes i made prior to starting my essay. Due to the nature of how badly i have been prepared this year for my essay and unfortunately COP in general i hadn't even solidified my essay title or question. So i used this as an opportunity to brainstorm possible ideas i had for potential questions or titles. Among other things i noted down general key words or topics to discuss. Some of these might not necessarily have been included into my essay due to how i have changed my mind frequently on what areas/topics to discuss but its all important to showing the basis from where i started.
I also may have added other ones after this such as more theorists but i haven't included them here as it is just a starting record more like a rough in a sketchbook in that sense.
· Discuss the ways in which music acts
as a social commentator
· Discuss how music work as a social
commentator and forms cultures and subcultures
· Discuss the ways in which the medium
of Music works as a social commentator and how it creates status frustration as
a result of it.
· Discuss the ways in which music,
through being a social commentator can create status frustration
· Discuss subcultures and musical
genres in relation to social reform
· Discuss the way in which music
instigated the emergence of subcultures in post second world war Britain and
their role in today’s society.
· Discuss the role of music and the
subsequent subcultures in society in Britain.
· How did the culture of the
Modernists ‘Mods’ in the late 1950’s to mid 1960’s Britain influence and impact
the idea of subculture British culture today?
Key words
· Subcultures
· Social commentary
· Status frustration
· Subcultural theory
· Social reform
· Affluence
Possible Arguments/topics
to discuss
· Are subcultures still relevant
· What impact did music have on
society?
· The influence of Androgynous
musicians and what impact that they had on society.
· To look at the impact of music in
general
· Working class resistance
· Structural changes
· Music and style centred youth
cultures
· Music as a cultural resource adopted
by youth culture
Genres
& Subcultures
· Mods
· Rockers
· Teddy boys
· Skinheads
· Rock n roll
· Punk
Theorists
· Robert K Merton
· Matthew Arnold
· Phil Cohen
· Stanley Cohen
· Cloward & Ohlin
· Andy Bennett
· E. Anne Kaplan
· Theodore Adorno
· Thomas Geyrhelter
· Birmingham CCCS (Centre for
Contemporary Cultural Studies)