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Why is style important to subculture groups? Analyze the style and politics of one or two subculture groups.
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Why is style important to subculture groups? Analyze the style and politics of one or two subculture groups Extract from Japanese Skinheads: The Meaning of a Subculture by Dan Freire Society gives birth to culture, and culture gives birth to subcultures. '"Mass Culture" indicates culture as commodified and administered, pretargeted and produced for large numbers of consumers: the masses. "Popular culture" must be carefully distinguished from the culture industry's productions, if the popular is to retain any critical force or resistant grass-roots connection to the "people."' The primal force behind many subcultures is the ability to not belong to mass culture, thus creating a sense of belonging, as one is part of something unique and particular. There is a resistance to mass culture within the skinhead subculture. Marginality has a power to create change. As long as these symbols are to be redefined and recreated by the subculture and not mass...
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