ABSTRACT
Music scenes are often characterized in literature as urban, fluid youth musical communities, or as social spaces within which alternative economies for the creation, distribution, and consumption of music develop. In this approach, scenes are commonly celebrated as a new form of socialization in the postmodern and globalized world, usually referring to specific European and Anglo-American post-industrialized contexts. Due to the ethnographic character of a large number of works made in these countries, the studies of music scenes in Europe and North America have emphasized a synchronic viewpoint describing the association between territories and music communities in metropolises, or using music styles as a mark for social or cultural distinction. As we have seen in this book, music scenes from Latin America can complement this perspective and give some new insights about these issues.
