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

Stahl, Geoff

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“…An effective example of this is seen in Stahl's (2004) work on the indie music scene in the Canadian city of Montreal. As Stahl illustrates, local music scenes invariably embrace a broad range of activities, including music-making, production, promotion -as well as the necessary infrastructure of physical resources, such as venues, clubs, rehearsal space, recording studios, and record/music shops, needed to sustain such activities.…”

Section: Theorizing Music Scenesmentioning

confidence: 95%

Music Scenes, Space and the Body

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Bennett

2014

Cultural Sociology

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The concept of scene is now a primary conceptual framework for studying the production and consumption of popular music. In a formative essay, Straw (1991) offered the important observation that scene could be theorized as both a local and trans-local phenomenon. Peterson and Bennett (2004) have added a new dimension to this conceptualization of music scenes through positing virtuality as a further medium for scene involvement. Missing from each element of this tripartite model of scene -local, trans-local, and virtual -is any consideration of how music scenes are enacted through the process of embodiment. In this article, we argue that embodiment is critically important for how music scenes are constructed, enacted and maintained by participants. The corporeal element of scene introduced through its embodiment by social actors, we argue, is key to our understanding of the music scene as an anchoring place within everyday urban, regional and, increasingly, rural landscapes.

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Section: Theorizing Music Scenesmentioning

confidence: 95%

Music Scenes, Space and the Body

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Bennett

2014

Cultural Sociology

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“…The usual strategy is oriented to attracting the transnational corporate headquarters, tourists and middle class residents whose locational decisions are increasingly based on qualities of place (all other factors being equal) and whose choices are rapidly expanding. Local alternative scenes with their distinctive 'place-based' identities (Stahl, 2004), whilst not essential to the 'creative city' ('culture' can be bought in), are being used to great effect in city place-marketing campaigns.…”

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The Place of Alternative Culture and the Politics of its Protection in Berlin, Amsterdam and Melbourne

Shaw¹

2005

Planning Theory & Practice

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At the same time as changing global political-economies of land use are displacing lowincome people from inner cities, countering socio-cultural forces are inspiring marginal communities to resist. This article focuses on the loss of places used by alternative cultures in the inner city, and the effect of their claims to a right to the city and to difference. Some cities are turning to their planning and heritage systems to protect the place of alternative culture, but unexamined use of these strategies can cause as many problems as they solve. The article considers some more reflective responses from three city governments that cannot afford to lose the symbolic capital of their (sub)cultural economies.

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“…In addition, Harris (2000) notes how various subgenres of heavy metal, notably 'black' and 'death' metal, have become globally established almost entirely through underground networks that link small local metal scenes. Such alternative, underground music scenes are often preferred over the mainstream commercial music scene by musicians because of the creativity and autonomy which they afford (Stahl, 2004).…”

Section: The Popular Music Industrymentioning

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Editorial: Popular Music and Leisure

Bennett

2005

Leisure Studies

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

Cited by 59 publications

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Music Scenes, Space and the Body

Music Scenes, Space and the Body

The Place of Alternative Culture and the Politics of its Protection in Berlin, Amsterdam and Melbourne

Editorial: Popular Music and Leisure

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