Music Scenes: Local, Translocal, and Virtual

These fourteen original essays examine the fascinating world of ìmusic 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 fewóNew York bop jazz, Merseybeat, Memphis rockabilly, London punk, Bronx hip-hopóachieve 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.