University of Rhode Island DigitalCommons@URI Open Access Master's Theses 2020 POST-SUBCULTURAL GROUPS IN COSTA RICA: MUSIC SCENES, THE UNDERGROUND, AND CLOTHING STYLES DURING THE 1990s Mariela Aguero Barrantes University of Rhode Island,
[email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.uri.edu/theses Recommended Citation Aguero Barrantes, Mariela, "POST-SUBCULTURAL GROUPS IN COSTA RICA: MUSIC SCENES, THE UNDERGROUND, AND CLOTHING STYLES DURING THE 1990s" (2020). Open Access Master's Theses. Paper 1857. https://digitalcommons.uri.edu/theses/1857 This Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by DigitalCommons@URI. It has been accepted for inclusion in Open Access Master's Theses by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@URI. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. POST-SUBCULTURAL GROUPS IN COSTA RICA: MUSIC SCENES, THE UNDERGORUND, AND CLOTHING STYLES DURING THE 1990S BY MARIELA AGÜERO BARRANTES A THESIS SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF SCIENCE IN TEXTILES, FASHION MERCHANDISING AND DESIGN UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND 2020 MASTER OF SCIENCE THESIS OF MARIELA AGÜERO BARRANTES APPROVED: Thesis Committee: Major Professor Jessica Strübel Susan Hannel Ian Reyes Nasser H. Zawia DEAN OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND 2020 ABSTRACT During the 1990s, Costa Rica experienced a growth in youth bands performing emergent music genres. With this emergence, new social groupings also rise creating new relationships and memberships linked with music taste. The significance of the study is twofold: First, to understand how foreign cultural influences and local sociocultural dynamics came together to create new styles.