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Small Venues: Precarity, Vibrancy and Live Music - Hardcover
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Small Venues: Precarity, Vibrancy and Live Music - Hardcover
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by Sam Whiting (Author)
Throughout the history of popular music, the careers of many culturally significant artists and groups began on the small stages of local bars clubs, pubs, and discotheques. When the stories of The Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, and the New York punk hardcore and post punk scenes are told, iconic venues such as The Cavern, The Marquee and CBGB's serve as the settings of their early chapters Small live music venues such as these are pivotal in the narratives and history of popular music. However, very few of them survive.
This book focusses on the role of small live music venues as incubators for emerging talent and social hubs for music scene participants. Such venues are grassroots spaces of cultural labor and production that often struggle with issues of financial precarity yet are fundamental to the live music ecology of a city, acting both as platforms for emergent performers and spaces of sociality for local music scenes.Author Biography
Sam Whiting is a Vice-Chancellor's Senior Research Fellow at RMIT University, Melbourne.
Number of Pages: 240
Dimensions: 0.56 x 9 x 6 IN
Publication Date: September 07, 2023
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