1.Discuss two definitions of popular music/culture from John Storey’s Introduction to Cultural Theory and Popular Culture. How are these definitions still valid for popular music today? 2.Discuss the tensions between subcultural and post-subcultural theory. Choose at least one youth culture from each camp to illuminate your ideas.3.Explore and examine key ideas from post-subcultural theory. Choose at least two examples to illuminate your ideas.4.Making reference to Adorno’s ideas surrounding pseudo-individualization, undertake an analysis of one particular artist or musical style. What are the benefits and limitations of Adorno’s approach in the examination of your chosen artist/music style?5.Discuss Mark Duffett’s four discourses of youth, exploitation, gender, and fandom with regards to the notion of ‘manufactured pop” by choosing three representative songs as case studies (i.e. by the same act or by different acts) from the 21st century repertoire6.Explore the concepts of hybridity, globalisation, and “thirdspace” in one international/transnational popular music genre by choosing three songs as representative case studies7.Making reference to Ann Desler’s criteria of transcendence, historical importance, and authenticity, examine the factors and indicators of an artist/band’s or a work’s achievement of canonical status in the 21st century8.Using Jennifer Lena’s ‘dimensions,’ analyse the trajectory of a popular music genre in the 21st Century