Counterculture and Youth: The Music of Protest

This book is the result of years of research in the field of youth culture and its relationship with music in Bengal. It follows the history of counterculture, and its relationship with alternative music. The work uses secondary references for review of literature, and primary data collected and analysed by the author from her fieldwork in Kolkata and its suburbs. The book puts forth arguments on the trajectory of countercultural history in Bengal, and its effects on the youth expression through modern Bengali music. It also reflects upon the era of Western countercultural influences which have consequently shaped the development of alternative music in Bengal. The work dwells upon facts and data, and analyses them in the context of its theoretical parlance.