| Abstract [eng] |
There are tens of subcultures in the present-day subcultural map. Some of them exist as a particular form of leisure or as an identity building tool that is based on some fashion or musical style. Other subcultures can be described as having certain subcultural „philosophy“ which is expressed through specific praxis. Some subcultures are more passive and less resistant to the influence of mass media and its attempts to generate ideas for the subcultures themselves. Other youth cultural groups tries to protect their subcultural identity by avoiding external impact. This work tries to reveal how subcultural resistance is possible in nowadays and how it is expressed in particular subculture. This paper is based on punk subculture which is conserned as an classic example of subcultural resistance by many foreign and Lithuanian authors. In the first part of the work the particularity, limitations and criticisms of modern and postmodern subcultural theories are examined. The problematic and features of subcultural concept, which is found in modern and postmodern theories of early and late Birmingham school members, is also analysed. Punk subculture analysis is based on three main components, that hepls to separate conflict subcultures from these that are more open to the influence of popular culture. These components are subcultural space, that indicates manner of subcultural activity (underground or overground); subcultural content, that includes ideological and practical expressions of the subculture; connections with the popular culture environment, that indicates subcultural activeness or passiveness and relation to popular culture. Second part of the work deals with empirical analysis of punk subculture in Vilnius. Research reveals reasons of subcultural involvement; subcultural content, that includes the main punk ideas, values and practices; subcultural space and its linking to the popular culture; modern and postmodern features of the subculture; and its self-criticisms. Author comes to a conclusion that Vilnius punk subculture can be treated more like a spot of resistance in popular culture than conformist subculture because of the few reasons. Firstly, because of the consistency of its ideological and practical (or notion and action) content. Secondly, because of subcultures effort to become „unconsumable“. The main subcultural ideas and practices are purposefully demarcated from the influence of external culture. |
