Antiestetik - En studie kring musiksmak, värderingar och sociala strukturer inom hardcorescenen

Sammanfattning: Through participant observation in a local promoter group of hardcore punk shows in Gothenburg and qualitative interviews with its members I have investigated links between taste in music, values and social structures in the hardcore punk scene. The theoretical framework of this essay is built upon the concept of subcultural capital, which is adapted from Pierre Bourdieu and developed by Sarah Thornton and Keith Kahn-Harris. The result shows how members among the hardcore punk scene create and preserve distinction towards others, while the distinction becomes important benchmarks for including and excluding practices in the scene.