Music and youth culture T5

Taylor swift had an early start in the music business, she started at age 11, convincing here parents she was good enough to start a career.

There is lots of evidence of the 'Swifti fandom' there every where, from blogs, websites, to full blown meet ups on Facebook groups!

The pros to having pop stars as role models is that they always share a positive message that teach kids to do the same, however kids may see them selves a failures as they will most likely never live up to match there idol.

Music and youth culture T4

Hip hop music is so important to young black Americans because it was invented in the slave era, not just as a method to cope and express there suffering but as coded communication to wards each other in plane sight of overseers. As a way to devise there next escape or warn each other. After slavery black people no longer had to sing about there next escape. but oppression and suffering still continued so they kept on singing, as black plight evolved so did the music. Rapping evolved from the Blues, Blues evolved from spirituals. Today Rap is a form of expression for black people. Every black person con identify with it in some form or fashion its part of there culture and history.

Indie music inspires me because it calms me down, they are powerfully emotional, they spark emotion but don't talk about how there lives suck.

Music and youth culture T3

After speaking to my mum, who is 38, she said that Blur and the song Parklife played a significant in her youth. She explained “Blur was the first band that I really idolized and my group of friends loved the indie scene. When the song Parklife came out, it was catchy and a bit cheeky and we all thought it was cool. Listening to that genre shaped our friendship group and still remains one of my favourite songs to this day.”