Music Scenes Local, Translocal, and Virtual

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.Bennett, Andy is the author of 'Music Scenes Local, Translocal, and Virtual', published 2004 under ISBN 9780826514516 and ISBN 0826514510.