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Popular Music Scenes and Cultural Memory

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Authors:
  1. Andy Bennett

    1. Gold Coast Campus, Griffith Univ, School of Humanities Gold Coast Campus, Brisbane, Australia

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  2. Ian Rogers

    1. Media and Communication, RMIT University Media and Communication, Melbourne, Australia

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  • First book to study music scenes as an aspect of cultural memory and emotional geography
  • Clearly written in an accessible and engaging style
  • Features original data from interviews conducted with fans, musicians and promoters

Part of the book series: Pop Music, Culture and Identity (PMCI)

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction: Scenes and Memory

    • Andy Bennett, Ian Rogers
    Pages 1-7

  3. Concepts

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 9-9
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    2. Scene ‘Theory’: History, Usage and Influence

      • Andy Bennett, Ian Rogers
      Pages 11-35

    3. Music, Memory, Space and Place

      • Andy Bennett, Ian Rogers
      Pages 37-59

  4. Case Studies

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 61-61
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    2. The Origins of Taste and Precursors of Scenes

      • Andy Bennett, Ian Rogers
      Pages 63-90

    3. Scenes, Memory and the Spaces of Music Consumption

      • Andy Bennett, Ian Rogers
      Pages 91-114

    4. Spaces of Local Music Production

      • Andy Bennett, Ian Rogers
      Pages 115-138

    5. Virtuality: Images and the Local Archive

      • Andy Bennett, Ian Rogers
      Pages 139-161

    6. The Distance from an Unknown Centre: The Discourses of Periphery and Edge in Music Scenes

      • Andy Bennett, Ian Rogers
      Pages 163-183

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 185-206
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About this book

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. 


Authors and Affiliations

  • Gold Coast Campus, Griffith Univ, School of Humanities Gold Coast Campus, Brisbane, Australia

    Andy Bennett

  • Media and Communication, RMIT University Media and Communication, Melbourne, Australia

    Ian Rogers

About the authors

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. 


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