Afuera: La desaparición del underground como síntoma

Abstract

This article analyses the situation of paralysis that popular culture, especially music, seems to have been suffering since the end of the 1990s. To do so, we examine the role of the stylistic transformations it underwent from the 1950s and 1960s onwards and the socio-cultural context in which they occurred. We then analyse the way in which digitalisation and networks have changed the dynamics underpinning these transformations and their implications, in order to critique the analysis that different authors make of this lack of vitality in today's popular culture.