Back's main point throughout this chapter is that the black working-class youth culture of Britain has evolved in many different ways since the post-war times. Back uses the term "cultural rhizomes" to refer to times when the culture reaches a point where it changes to form two different subcultures, and sometimes even mixes with completely different youth cultures to create completely new ones.
This reading is relevant to the class because of the examples of ethnographic field work that Back uses. A perfect example would be when Back attended a performance by Michael Ranks, an MC, and transcribed the whole performance, including crowd reaction and what the MC was saying. Back then went further to analyze the performance and answer the "why" question.
discussion question: Why does it seem like music that comes out of black youth cultures, for example hip-hop and soul, are so much better at evolving and fusing with and into new and different sounds? Or, can you think of any white youth cultures that have done similar changing and experienced "cultural rhizomes"?
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