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  • 'I Always Remember That Moment': Peak Music Experiences as Epiphanies

    Author(s)
    Green, Ben
    Griffith University Author(s)
    Green, Ben G.
    Year published
    2016
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    Abstract
    The sociological study of music consumption has tended to focus on general and typical experience instead of discrete or extraordinary experiences, consistently with a wider lack of biographical analysis. However, a popular topic among music fans is the phenomenon of peak music experiences: specific experiences involving music that are especially memorable, influential and even pivotal for the individuals involved. Drawing on the results of a pilot study conducted in Brisbane, Australia, this article shows that participants in the city’s indie music scene cite peak music experiences as central to their biographical narratives ...
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    The sociological study of music consumption has tended to focus on general and typical experience instead of discrete or extraordinary experiences, consistently with a wider lack of biographical analysis. However, a popular topic among music fans is the phenomenon of peak music experiences: specific experiences involving music that are especially memorable, influential and even pivotal for the individuals involved. Drawing on the results of a pilot study conducted in Brisbane, Australia, this article shows that participants in the city’s indie music scene cite peak music experiences as central to their biographical narratives of inspiration, influence, conversion and motivation. These experiences make visible the more subtle processes by which musical meaning, taste and identity are constantly made and remade, as well as showing how encounters with music can affect subjectivities in an enduring way. The listeners are conscious of these processes, reflect on them and even try to create them.
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    Journal Title
    Sociology
    Volume
    50
    Issue
    2
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1177/0038038514565835
    Subject
    Sociology
    Sociology not elsewhere classified
    Biography
    Consumption
    Epiphanies
    Indie music
    Peak music experiences
    Taste
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/142633
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