Tabitha Arambula
Pop Culture
10/27/14
Online class presenting
The article, Punk's Not Dead: The Continuing Significance of Punk Rock for an Older Generation of Fans, by Andy Bennett, was about how older fans of punk are still attached to the music and style but just not the same way they used to when they were young, and how the older fans react towards the younger generation of punk fans. Bennett conducted ethnographic interviews in East Kent, England. Bennett had the interviews with punk fans between the ages of 35 and 53. Bennett found that eventually the fans leave behind their punk identity. In the article, Bennett mentioned the Weinstein observation study of heavy metal and found that older fans don't attend concerts, don't buy new released albums or magazines, they don't call the radio to request a song, etc. Bennett interviewed middle-aged people, many were middle-class professionals who identified themselves as "ex" rockers, mods, punks, and so on. People in the forties and fifties said that music still matters. Bennett also found that older fans are limited to being involved in such events because of their work commitments, and family. so he interviewed 15 punk fans between 35-53 years old between September 2002 and May 2003. Bennett found that the older fans usually stay away from the stage because of "surfing," when people jump off the stage onto the crowd and are moved around the whole place. They stayed in the back and observed everything, and called themselves the "forefathers," "Male educators" passing it to the next generation.
It is understandable that as they got older, they would end up changing their taste in music or how they were involved. Older people can't really be in the front in concerts because they might not be able to handle the body surfing or the mosh pits. they aren't as rowdy as the younger people so they stand at the back and enjoy themselves.
ReplyDeleteRosa Martinez