Popular Music Scenes and Cultural Memory

Andy Bennett is Professor of Cultural Sociology in the School of Humanities, Languages and Social Science at Griffith University, Australia.  A leading figure in sociological studies of popular music and youth culture, he is author and editor of numerous books including Music, Style, and Aging, Music Scenes (co-edited with Richard A. Peterson) and Remembering Woodstock. Ian Rogers is Lecturer of Popular Music in the School of Media and Communication at RMIT University. He is the author of numerous articles on musician ideologies, music policy and local music history and is an accomplished musician and critic.

• Introduction: Scenes and memory.- Part I: Concepts.- 1.Scene ‘theory’: History, usage and influence.- 2.Music, memory, space and place.- Part II: Case studies.- 3.The origins of taste and precursors of scenes.- 4.Scenes, memory and the spaces of music consumption.- 5.Spaces of local music production.- 6.Virtuality: Images and the local archive.- 7.The distance from an unknown centre: The discourses of periphery and edge in music scenes