"It’s Like Canada Reduced”: Setting the Scene in Montreal

Stahl, G. (2004) ‘“It’s Like Canada Reduced”: Setting the Scene in Montreal’. In               

          Bennett, A. and Kahn-Harris, K. (eds) After Subcultures, London: Ashgate.

Geoff Stahl‘s journal goes into depth about not only scene but the semiotic and social value that are embedded within particular scenes. Stahls’ examples of scene take place in Canada, they explore the urban music making ‘scene’ from the mid to late nineties.

With this particular article having a strong focus on the Canadian music making scene it is automatically different from any of the other articles I have referenced. This being so this journal does have some similarities with certain elements presented in Music Scene: Local, Translocal and Virtual. For example the two both go into detail about what elements make the scenes they each discuss, scenes.

Although this journal article is not about the Grunge subculture/scene directly but, it has given some examples of the way in which a music scene takes over a city and even country, dominates political discussion and becomes a part of the nation’s lifestyle. Being given an example of different places, time periods and ways in which a scene can be examined gives me a broader spectrum of knowledge on scene, which will be helpful in writing my final assessment.

"It's Like Canada Reduced": Setting the Scene in Montreal