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This investigation analyses the role of music as a central dimension of young people's identities. Our main goal is to recognize and understand the ways by which young people relate to music and the processes by which these relations materialise in specific urban cultures. Musical experiences comprise values, interactions, language codes, forms of public appearance, aesthetics and scenarios, all of which represent important elements of young people's identity-construction processes. Focusing on urban sceneries, the research programme will try to explore different public expressions of these identities and cultures, without establishing strict analytical boundaries. The approach is both synchronic and diachronic, in order to provide not only a retrospective overview of the pop/rock phenomenon, but also an analysis of its current manifestations, in a context of rapid social change and striking aesthetic and cultural miscegenation. Hence, the investigation's methodological design will interconnect extensive and intensive procedures. |