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The Origins of Taste and Precursors of Scenes

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Popular Music Scenes and Cultural Memory

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This chapter focuses on the origins of music taste and how it relates to later or concurrent scene engagement. Taste plays a large part in an individual’s biographical development, especially in music scenes. It can be seen to drive and gatekeep music scenes, steering the material actions individuals perform, and the experiences they recall and document. The formation of music scenes is often explained by mapping and narrativizing the taste-based actions of participants. Drawing on the detailed responses collected from respondents, this chapter explores the structure and development of the narratives of taste, and how they intersect with a range of scene locations, both socially inscribed and geographically dispersed.

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  1. Gold Coast Campus, Griffith Univ, School of Humanities Gold Coast Campus, Brisbane, Australia

    Andy Bennett

  2. Media and Communication, RMIT University Media and Communication, Melbourne, Australia

    Ian Rogers

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Bennett, A., Rogers, I. (2016). The Origins of Taste and Precursors of Scenes. In: Popular Music Scenes and Cultural Memory. Pop Music, Culture and Identity. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-40204-2_4

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