scenes and subcultures
by alexi gunner · updated 1mo ago
scenes and subcultures
by alexi gunner · updated 1mo ago
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Several theories have been proposed, some less plausible than others. The dullness of long, dark winters is a common suggestion. The melodic nature of the language is another. It has also been pointed out that Sweden has the highest concentration of choirs in the world — eight percent of the population are active singers. Then there is th
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Before there is a subculture, there is a scene. A scene is a small group of creators who invent an exciting New Thing
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Scenia do not start fully-formed. Instead, they evolve through three stages: communities, micro-scenia, and scenia.
Community: a group of people living in the same place or having a particular characteristic in common; a feeling of fellowship with others, as a result of sharing common attitudes, interests, and goals.
Examples: early personal
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we have the sense that what we're consuming is more personalized which is a little bit at odds with consuming as a community right so the idea of the monoculture if you have a monoculture it's pretty easy to situate the counterculture in relation to that right with the monoculture is everyone watching Game of Thrones at the same time the countercul
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What is a scene? It is a group of people who are producing work in public but aimed at each other. The metal bands in Karlshamn, where Schuster grew up, were a scene. They performed on stage — but the audience was mainly their friends who played in other bands. If they were anything like the other local scenes I’ve seen, they cha
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