Playing for Life: the everyday music practices of marginalised youth as strategic pathways to agency, employment and socio-economic inclusion.

流行音乐被广泛认为在情感和文化上对边缘化青年至关重要，往往为就业和社会经济融入提供战略途径。该项目是第一个比较国际项目，旨在探索在后工业社会中边缘化的年轻人如何参与流行音乐，以及他们如何通过利用正规学校以外的当地文化资源来发展他们的音乐和技术技能。该研究以社区为基础，将从年轻人自己的角度确定学习和代理的过程。研究结果将丰富当前有关青年的社会理论、青年服务的政策和项目发展。

Popular music is widely recognised as affectively and culturally central to marginalised youth, often providing strategic pathways to employment and socio-economic inclusion. This project is the first comparative international project to explore how marginalised youth engage with popular music in post-industrial societies, and how they develop their music and technological skills by using local cultural resources that exist outside of formal schooling. Located in community-based organisations, the study will identify processes of learning and agency from the perspectives of young people themselves. The findings will enrich current social theory on youth, policy and program development of youth services.