New post-subcultural networks and their job potentials for urban areas in the USA

Subject of enquiry 1. New post-subcultural networks operating in the field of popular culture that replace "historic" youth subcultures (like mods, punks, rockers, teds... ) as described by the Centre of Contemporary Cultural Studies in Birmingham 2. The job potentials of these new post-subcultural formations (as networks of DJs, label owners, publishers, musicians, club hosts) for US-metropolitan areas (New York, Los Angeles, Chicago) and middle-sized urban areas (Baltimore, Washington, Seattle). Hypothesis 1: The forming of new micro-groupings which try to differentiate themselves from the hegemonic culture via subcultural (or subculture-derived) capital will stay constitutive for popular culture itself even if the new eclectic (or hybrid) mainstream formation absorbs a lot of subcultural capital. Hypothesis 2: The new subculture-related formations of the present are loosely connected temporary post- subcultural networks. Hypothesis 3: The notion of subcultural resistance is considerably diluted in favour of a model which sees post- subcultural activities as much more dependent upon and co-operative with market operations - this opens up new job potentials for urban areas within cultural industries.