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There were two objectives to this book: to consider the various ways in which youth culture and popular music have been theorized by sociologists, cultural and media theorists, and to bring a new perspective to some of the more recent work on youth culture and popular music that take as their starting point those local spaces in which popular music is heard by young people and appropriated as a cultural resource. The findings are based on fieldwork conducted over a 12 month period between October 1994 and October 1995. The book is structured into 2 parts as follows: theories of youth culture and popular, comprising the sociology of youth culture; youth culture and popular music; and the significance of locality; and local representations: case studies, including dance music, local identity and urban space; Bhangra and Asian identity, the role of local knowledge; Hip Hop am Main, rappin' on the Tyne: hip …