Rock, Refrain and Remove: Hearing Place and Seeing Music in Brasília

Abstract

This article investigates relationships between rock music and the concept of place in the modernist, functionalist, planned city of Brasília, Brazil, known at times as 'Capital of Rock' and 'Capital of Hope'. With rock history in Brasília, the city's built environment and its social character as my foci, I theorise the homology of remove as a way to conceptualise substantive relationships between these three, seemingly disparate 'spheres'. Fieldwork, notably three repeated motifs*the 'refrains'*subjects use to explain their observations, historical research, and space syntax theory's 'integration' provide the material.

The Sonic Construction Of Identity In Taipei's Kuajie (crossover) Music Scene

“…Below I have divided clusters of the use of the term music scene relevant to Taipei's kuajie music scene in order to better understand the meaning of this slippery term.Jazz and Urban CompetitionWhen Straw first used the term scene, it was in reference to the local punk scene. Punk scenes, noted for their ironic organization around the idea of anarchy, have been wellcovered in the literature(Berger 1999;Baulch 2007;Wheeler 2012;Tatro 2014;Martin- Iverson 2014). However, no genre is as associated with the word scene as jazz.…”