ABSTRACT
This chapter presents the Bucharest underground music scene. It provides the audience–artist relationship in the Bucharest underground scene. Gentrification of the Bucharest city centre is a recent phenomenon, compared with other European capitals, because the buildings were nationalized in the communist period. In Bucharest, the development of club culture has been based on the pillars of an inadequate infrastructure, a low level of public regulation and control, and a high degree of interest in entertainment. Ironically the work spaces from the communist period became the leisure spaces in post-communist Bucharest. The audience profile in the Bucharest underground music scene is influenced by a venue’s design and structure, depending on the genre of music delivered in that space. The economic and social problems from the communist period, as well as the deficient urban infrastructure, are reflected in the contents of the underground music as well as in the manner in which this music scene has developed in Romania.
