Popular Music Scenes and Cultural Memory (eBook)

Andy Bennett, Ian Rogers (Autoren)

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2016
206 Seiten
Palgrave Macmillan UK (Verlag)
9781137402042 (ISBN)

Infos

This volume explores the ways in which music scenes are not merely physical spaces for the practice of collective musical life but are also inscribed with and enacted through the articulation of cultural memory and emotional geography. The book draws on empirical data collected in cites throughout Australia. 

In terms of understanding the relationship between music scenes and participants, much of the existing popular music literature tends to avoid one key aspect of scene: its predominant past-tense and memory-based nature. Nascent music scenes may be emergent and on-going but their articulation in the present is often based on past events, ideas and histories. There is a noticeable gap between the literature concerning popular music ethnography and the growing body of work on cultural memory and emotional geography. This book is a study of the conceptual formation and use of music scenes by participants. It is also an investigation of the structures underpinning music scenes more generally. 

Andy Bennett is Professor of Cultural Sociology in the School of Humanities, Languages and Social Science at Griffith University, Australia.  A leading figure in sociological studies of popular music and youth culture, he is author and editor of numerous books including Music, Style, and Aging, Music Scenes (co-edited with Richard A. Peterson) and Remembering Woodstock. 

Ian Rogers is Lecturer of Popular Music in the School of Media and Communication at RMIT University. He is the author of numerous articles on musician ideologies, music policy and local music history and is an accomplished musician and critic. 

Inhalt

Dedication 6
Acknowledgements 7
Contents 8
Chapter 1: Introduction: Scenes and Memory 10
Part I: Concepts 17
Chapter 2: Scene ‘Theory’: History, Usage and Influence 18
Introduction 18
‘Systems of Articulation, Logics of Change’ 20
The Concept of Scene in Action 25
The Rise and Rise of Scene Research 31
Local Scenes 32
Trans-local Scenes 35
Virtual Scenes 38
Conclusion 40
Notes 42
Chapter 3: Music, Memory, Space and Place 43
Popular Music and Cultural Memory 45
Music, Memory and Temporality 52
Music, Memory, Space and Place 54
Music Scenes and Memory 59
Conclusion 64
Note 65
Part II: Case Studies 66
Chapter 4: The Origins of Taste and Precursors of Scenes 67
Introduction 67
On Taste 69
The Earliest Memories of Popular Music 75
The Early Contexts of Popular Music 82
My Music: Taking Hold of Popular Music 82
Conclusion 93
Note 94
Chapter 5: Scenes, Memory and the Spaces of Music Consumption 95
Scenes, Space and Emotional Geography 96
‘I Remember When’: The Incredible Lightness of Scene 100
Making a Scene in the Record Shop 106
‘Together Alone’: Scenes, Memory and Private Space 109
Conclusion 117
Notes 118
Chapter 6: Spaces of Local Music Production 119
Introduction 119
Loud Rooms and Quiet Rooms: The Scholarship of Production Spaces 120
Producing Brisbane: The Creative Environments of Local Musicians 123
Residential Houses, Multiple Use and Production Intersections 124
The Multi-use Production Site as a Part of Memory and Lineage 128
Capturing Mobilities: The Unofficial Archive of Brisbane Music 135
On Memory and Music Production 139
Conclusion 141
Notes 142
Chapter 7: Virtuality: Images and the Local Archive 143
Introduction 143
Music Technologies and Scenes: New, Old and Virtual 144
Applications and Platforms: Virtual Music Participation in Australia 150
YouTube: Streaming and Remembering 151
Facebook: The Central Channel 156
Changing Parameters: The Virtual Layer as a Topography 161
Conclusion 165
Chapter 8: The Distance from an Unknown Centre: The Discourses of Periphery and Edge in Music Scenes 166
The Most Isolated City 167
In a ‘Shitty Country Town’ 172
A Place of Our Own 175
Origin Stories and 610 177
The Social Networked DIY Venue and High Tea 181
Conclusion 184
References 187
Index 199

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 23.11.2016
• Reihe/Serie: Pop Music, Culture and Identity
• Reihe/Serie: Pop Music, Culture and Identity
• Zusatzinfo: X, 206 p.
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Pop / Rock
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: Australia • collective musical life • Cultural Memory • emotional geography • music scene • past events, ideas and histories • popular music • popular music ethnography • space and place
• ISBN-13: 9781137402042 / 9781137402042