Books > Arts & Architecture > Music
|
Buy Now
Music Scenes - Local, Translocal, and Virtual (Paperback, New)
Loot Price: R1,037
Discovery Miles 10 370
You Save: R273
(21%)
|
|
Music Scenes - Local, Translocal, and Virtual (Paperback, New)
Expected to ship within 12 - 17 working days
|
While more than 80 percent of the world's commercial music is
controlled by four multinational firms, most music is made and
enjoyed in diverse situations divorced from such corporate
behemoths. 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
hiphop - 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. The editors distinguish between three types of scenes
- local, translocal, and virtual - which provide the organizing
framework for the essays. Aspects of local scenes, which are
confined to specific areas, are explored through essays on Chicago
blues, rave, karaoke, teen pop, and salsa. The section on
translocal scenes, which involve the coming together of scattered
local scenes around a particular type of music and lifestyle,
includes articles on Riot Grrrls, goths, art music, and
anarcho-punk. Aspects of virtual scenes, in which fans communicate
via the internet, are illustrated using alternative country, the
Canterbury sound, postrock, and Kate Bush fans. Also included is an
essay that shows how the social conditions in places where jazz was
made influenced that music's development.
General
Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate?
Let us know about it.
Does this product have an incorrect or missing image?
Send us a new image.
Is this product missing categories?
Add more categories.
Review This Product
No reviews yet - be the first to create one!
|
|
Email address subscribed successfully.
A activation email has been sent to you.
Please click the link in that email to activate your subscription.