Representations of Youth Culture Through Popular Culture and the Design of a CD

Popular music has become inextricably located in and around all media, from advertising campaigns, news stories, fanzines, film soundtracks, radio programming and television network successes (and failures) to groundbreaking video clips. Popular music is the touchstone of our daily lives, or to paraphrase cultural critic Meaghan Morris, it is the billboard for everyday life. – Marcus Breen, The Media in Australia, p.119.