Age is just a number: Rave culture and the cognitively young “thirty something”

European Journal of Marketing

Volumn 38, Issue 5-6, 2004, Pages 641-658

  Goulding, Christina ^a   Shankar, Avi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLVERHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EXETER BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cognition; Consumer behaviour; Leisure activities; Popular culture; Social groups; Youth

Indexed keywords

EID: 29244466394     PISSN: 03090566     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/03090560410529268     Document Type: Article

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