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Article: Music Scenes: Local, Translocal, and Virtual.(Book Review)
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Music Scenes: Local, Translocal, and Virtual. Edited by Andy Bennett and Richard A. Peterson. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 2004. [xvi, 264 p. ISBN 0-8265-1451-0. $24.95.] Illustrations, index.
"Scene" is one of the most frequently-used--and therefore murky--terms in popular music studies and, before this volume, has scarcely been sorted out thoroughly, save for a trenchant article in Cultural Studies by Will Straw ("Systems of Articulation, Logics of Change: Communities and Scenes in Popular Music," Cultural Studies 53 [1991]: 368-88). But that was 1991. Scenes have come and gone, and, more to the point for the purposes of this volume, the explosion of ...