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  • Reconciling Neo-Tribes and Individualism: The Transcendence and Construction of Self Through Peak Music Experiences

    Author(s)
    Green, B
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    Green, Ben G.
    Year published
    2018
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    Abstract
    Many music fans narrate their relationships to music and their lives more broadly by reference to specific, memorable experiences with music, which I call peak music experiences. Based on ethnographic research in local music scenes in Brisbane, Australia, this chapter details how peak music experiences provide insight into musical sociality. They are central to taste-based belonging, beyond preferences for particular music, by anchoring preferred ways of experiencing music, selves and others. The focus on shared, affective responses to music, explored through collective rituals such as gigs and clubbing, highlights the ...
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    Many music fans narrate their relationships to music and their lives more broadly by reference to specific, memorable experiences with music, which I call peak music experiences. Based on ethnographic research in local music scenes in Brisbane, Australia, this chapter details how peak music experiences provide insight into musical sociality. They are central to taste-based belonging, beyond preferences for particular music, by anchoring preferred ways of experiencing music, selves and others. The focus on shared, affective responses to music, explored through collective rituals such as gigs and clubbing, highlights the neo-tribal aspects of music scene participation. However, while peak music experiences are by definition transient and transcendent, they can have lasting significance for everyday identity and enduring solidarity, including as a key resource for the construction of coherent self-narratives. Accordingly, peak music experiences show how neo-tribal sociality interacts with reflexive, rationalistic individualism, contributing to the reconciliation of these theoretical models. The shared narratives of peak music experiences give specific, discursive shape to both the affective and rational parameters of music scene belonging.
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    Book Title
    Neo-Tribes: Consumption, Leisure and Tourism
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-68207-5_11
    Subject
    Other human society not elsewhere classified
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/380845
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