MUSI20150 Lecture 5: Lecture 5
Document Summary
Identity salience the constant negotiation between our different identities: the concept of the self, self the conscious understanding we form of our identity. Music practices emerge out of a particular place and context. Local networks of social relationships and practices relevant to the context. Expresses concerns and realities of that context. Global scenes can also be appropriated to forge local music scenes: virtual scenes. Virtual scenes displaced through demonstration of knowledge about the style vs. local scenes displayed through physical attendance at gigs: scenes and identity. A means to identify and connect with others with similar values and contexts. A way to communicate identity through a shared understanding of what scenes mean. A way to unite and connect in group identities. Depend on past experiences: music in life narratives, music makes up a lot of the memories that are in our identity narratives, music as a marker in the narrative. Music connects us to a time and place.
