The British music scene is made up of multiple overlapping subcultures. The largest of those subcultures is represented by the likes of Later with Jools Holland, the main stage at Glastonbury or the Mercury Music Prize. It thinks of itself as “the mainstream”, but it’s really no less an subculture as the underground prog scene. It doesn’t really represent anything but a tiny fraction of the diversity of music that real people listen to across the country.
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The Industry and Press tend to view music as a fashion commodity. In that view, sub-cultures are only important if they are about to grow suddenly into the next “big thing “. In the absence of this, they default to the most recent sub-culture.