Music Scenes: Local, Translocal, and Virtual
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| Rating | : | 4.69 (725 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0826514510 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 272 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-03-29 |
| Language | : | English |
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. Andy Bennett is lecturer in sociology at the University of Surrey. He is the author of Popular Music and Youth Culture: Music, Identity and Place and Cultures of Popular Music. His books include The Production of Culture, Creating Country Music: Fabricating Authenticity, and The Sounds of Social Change: Studies in Popular Culture, co-edited with R. Serge Denisoff. With Kevin Da
"Interesting Read Thus Far" according to Daniel Douglas. I'm most of the way through this reader. I've enjoyed many of the selections. I think the book provides a valuable, multifaceted lens through which to view music scenes.
This volume remedies that neglect.. 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. 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. 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
A pleasant, even voyeuristic glimpse into an assortment of largely closed worlds. --No Depressionwill go down well with readers who are fascinated by the inexplicable power that music has to attract strange bedfellows, or who simply enjoy different kinds of music. --ForeWord Magazine