Music Scenes: Local, Translocal, and Virtual - Paperback

These fourteen original essays examine the fascinating world of music scenes, those largely inconspicuous sites where clusters of musicians, producers, and fans explore their common musical tastes and distinctive lifestyle choices. Although most music scenes come and go with hardly a trace, they nevertheless give immense satisfaction to their participants, and a few--New York bop jazz, Merseybeat, Memphis rockabilly, London punk, Bronx hip-hop--achieve fame and spur musical innovations. To date, serious study of the scenes phenomenon has focused mainly on specific music scenes while paying less attention to recurrent dynamics of scene life, such as how individuals construct and negotiate scenes to the various activities. This volume remedies that neglect.

• | Author: Andy Bennett
• | Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
• | Publication Date: Jun 11, 2004
• | Number of Pages: 272 pages
• | Binding: Paperback or Softback
• | ISBN-10: 0826514510
• | ISBN-13: 9780826514516