ABSTRACT
Therapy often includes requiring the elimination of the music and its associated sartorial styles. The reaction against insurgent subcultures has gone as far as efforts to suppress them. By the early 1990s a new musical style emerged that has tried to speak to and for youth. Exemplified by groups such as Jane's Addiction and Nirvana, the style has been labeled "alternative". Heavy metal, which appeared as a form of music around 1970, achieved subcultural status in Britain by 1974. Heavy metal, which appeared as a form of music around 1970, achieved subcultural status in Britain by 1974. Another scholar argues that the core of adolescents' personal identities is their musical taste. Cultures may find some ways of marking off this physiological group from others by codes and disciplines, particularly those pertaining to sexuality, aggression, and work or preparation for work.
