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This chapter examines the online content and practice of local Australian music scenes. Virtual technologies are often cheap to access, easy to use and rapidly circulating. The formation of a contemporary music scene is rarely without attendant documentation via social media, video-streaming sites, digital photo archives, MP3 file-sharing networks, online forums, blogs and other collaboratively curated media platforms. This chapter looks at the impact of these technologies on narrative and memory, specifically how the structural changes and feedback loops of virtual content-creation have impacted on music scenes. Drawing on a broad range of material – including interview data on participant perception, use and reliance – this chapter probes the changing production and reception of localized music culture in Australia.
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Bennett, A., Rogers, I. (2016). Virtuality: Images and the Local Archive. 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_7
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