I see what you mean. It's not easy to work out exactly what he meant, when all we got was a few sentences of quote - possibly out of context. In the previous sentence (which I didn't quote, but probably should have) he said that punk preached a "Do It Yourself" culture, which made me interpret "own their own culture" as meaning "create their own culture" - or, at least, have a significant role in shaping its creation.
I thought that pop music was aimed mostly at young people ever since the 50s. Maybe one thing that's changed is that the technology for transmitting it is constantly changing, and the young are the quickest to adopt these. 30 years ago, teenagers and their parents were listening to different music, but were listening to them in the same way - i.e. on records. Now the young people are using MySpace and YouTube and iPods and mobile phones and all these things that a lot of older people feel baffled by. It increases the impression that popular culture is a whole new world owned by young people.
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I thought that pop music was aimed mostly at young people ever since the 50s. Maybe one thing that's changed is that the technology for transmitting it is constantly changing, and the young are the quickest to adopt these. 30 years ago, teenagers and their parents were listening to different music, but were listening to them in the same way - i.e. on records. Now the young people are using MySpace and YouTube and iPods and mobile phones and all these things that a lot of older people feel baffled by. It increases the impression that popular culture is a whole new world owned by young people.