Омладинска поткултура у бирмингемској традицији: развој и рецепција концепта у домаћој науци
Youth Subculture in Birmingham Tradtion: the Development and Reception of This Concept among Serbian Scientists

Summary/Abstract: This article offers an overview of the theories dealing with the problem of subculture, as well as the relationship between youth, music and style, developed within the so-called Birmingham tradition. Every subculture is seen as communicative in two directions, so it is necessary to establish its relationship with both „parent culture“ - working class culture and „dominant culture“. Phil Cohen formulated the concept of „subculture as a symbolic solution of controversies.“. John Clark, Stewart Hall, Tony Jefferson and Brian Roberts develop the concept of subculture as „resistance through rituals”. Dick Hebdige places subculture in the frame of ethnicity, and Angela McRobbie in the frame of gender. The Birmingham theorists define the concept of subculture as a way of solving the controversy caused by changing parent / one’s own culture by means of style. The relations within a subculture, as well as between a subculture and its surroundings are expressed by the following terms: hegemony, homology and bricolage. The article also deals with the reception of concepts in our country’s science during the eighties. It also contains some major tendencies in the criticism of subculture theory, displaying its drawbacks in the study of modern phenomena.

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