Seeking to understand youth culture through its visual and musical expression,In Garagelandpresents a pioneering ethnographic study of rock bands and their fans.
Topics include class as well as sexual conflicts; mainstream and deviant subcultures, and the complex social, psychological and ethical relationships which exist within youth culture.
In Garagelanddevelops the notion of youth culture research as a way of mirroring our grown-up identities and of staking out the limits of late modern culture in general.