Music genres are often associated with subcultures. Subcultures are prevalent mainly among teenagers and adolescents, although some subcultures have participants that are adults - this varies from subculture to subculture. In today's society, there are more widely-known subcultures than ever before. This is partly because of the influence of modern media and modern societal expectations on today's generation.
Modern media is very easily accessible and influences people from a young age, with them either deciding that they want to attempt to live up to what is projected as 'ideal', or deciding that they would rather disregard that 'ideal' completely and go their own way - hence joining a subculture.
Most subcultures have a few older, key figures that are well respected or famous within the subculture itself (and maybe outside of it).
Subcultures first featured in sociological and anthropological writing in 1945. Subcultures in the twentieth century have mainly been shaped by world events and popular culture of the time - for instance, certain subcultures came into being after both of the World Wars while certain other subcultures came into being because of a famous icon in popular mainstream culture - Elvis, for example, inspired the 'greaser' culture.
For a subculture to exist a culture must exist first - there could be nothing 'alternative' if nothing was 'mainstream' or 'normal'.
Sources: http://www.jahsonic.com/SubcultureHistory.html
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