Gust musical, inautenticitat i classe social. Sobre com es signifiquen les jerarquies socials malgrat l’aparent fluïdesa de la cultura popular contemporània

Abstract

During the last decades, youth studies have find it difficult to explain the relationship between youth cultures and class differences. Apart from some exceptions, and in contrast to what happens with gender or ethnicity, socioeconomic inequalities have been basically absent from academic research on youth cultures, particularly from the so-called post-subcultural approach to youth styles. The goal of this article is to contribute to the correction of this anomaly by showing the way in which young people use their taste in music to make sense of the world and their place in it. It will do so through a qualitative research in three secondary schools in Barcelona, in which young people’s tastes in music are analysed in relation to each other, globally, bearing in mind that social and cultural differentiations are often drawn unreflexively.