Subcultural Sounds: Micromusics of the West

by Mark Slobin

A fascinating study of subcultural musics and their cultural identities.

The study of subcultural musics, what Mark Slobin calls "small musics in big systems," is characterized by a tremendously expanding search for cultural identity within multiethnic societies that are increasingly caught up in global cultural flow. Subcultural Sounds is the first critical attempt to explore the dynamics of this process in Europe and America, the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0819562610
• ISBN13: 9780819562616
• Release Date: April 1993
• Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
• Length: 139 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"