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The difficulties to define the Topic: the wide area, the diversity on approaches and treatments, the selection of topics –always arbitrary-, the understanding of juvenile cultual phenomena, location of the problems, just to point out the immediate ones.
Of course, a biggest difficulty is the actual topic of this state of art: juvenile culture. If youth is almost irreducible to one concept, delimitation and definition of juvenile culture becomes a truly investigatory exercise. We recognize three big lines: 1- Culture, identity and tradition regarding modernization proposal. 2- Cultural productions of youth 3- Juvenile cultural consume
Massive means of communication are no longer the priority on this deliberations, instead, cultural consumption appears; the tradition-modernity conflict is now seen from the perspective of globalization and, the cultural productions tend to move towards actual juvenile spaces, rather than movements. This amazing phenomena called youth, -so dynamic for its changing nature, so strange and close at the same time- worries us, most likely because it reflects clearly the human condition. |