Music Scenes: Local, Translocal, and Virtual.

Bennett, Andy, and Richard A. Peterson, eds. Music Scenes: Local, Translocal, and Virtual. 1st ed. Nashville: Vanderbilt UP, 2004. Print.

This book is about local, translocal and virtual scenes. This book demonstrates the differences between the music realms that are currently being looked into using a scenes perspective. Each different chapter of the book focus on different aspects of scene ranging from how to create and negotiate scenes to the activities needed to sustain them.

Although Music scenes: Local, Translocal and virtual and Straws’ journal on Systems of Articulation both discuss scene they have significant differences. This book explores the different aspects of different scenes; this includes differentiating the differences between local, translocal and virtual musical scenes. This is different from Straws journal because within the journal the social and cultural meaning and value behind music scenes are discussed.

This book has bettered my understandings between scene itself and ‘subcultures’. In the introductory chapter Bennett explains ‘scene’ as a term that presumes that a society has one commonly shared culture from which the subculture is deviant. This is helpful in giving me a deeper understanding of the topics my final essay will be based upon.


Music Scenes: Local, Translocal, and Virtual