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TY - JOUR
T1 - Musical taste and the creation of place-dependent capital
T2 - Manchester and the indie music field
AU - Skandalis, Alexandros
AU - Banister, Emma
AU - Byrom, John
N1 - The final, definitive version of this article has been published in the Journal, Sociology, 54 (1), 2019, © SAGE Publications Ltd, 2019 by SAGE Publications Ltd at the Sociology page: https://journals.sagepub.com/home/soc on SAGE Journals Online: http://journals.sagepub.com/
PY - 2020/2/1
Y1 - 2020/2/1
N2 - Drawing on qualitative interviews with indie music fans in Manchester, UK, we explore how experiences in the indie music field inform spatial and place-specific understandings of musical taste. Inspired by Bourdieu’s sociology of taste, the concept of place-dependent capital incorporates the interplay of the experiential dimensions of taste, and the overall structures in which they are embedded. We develop our findings into three themes, which allow us to highlight the diversity of ways in which our participants create place-dependent capital: exploring the taste of place; dwelling in place; and creating a sense of place. We propose the usefulness of place-dependent capital as an alternative theoretical tool, which acknowledges both structural and experiential dimensions of musical taste, allowing us to demonstrate the situatedness of indie music fans’ tastes.
AB - Drawing on qualitative interviews with indie music fans in Manchester, UK, we explore how experiences in the indie music field inform spatial and place-specific understandings of musical taste. Inspired by Bourdieu’s sociology of taste, the concept of place-dependent capital incorporates the interplay of the experiential dimensions of taste, and the overall structures in which they are embedded. We develop our findings into three themes, which allow us to highlight the diversity of ways in which our participants create place-dependent capital: exploring the taste of place; dwelling in place; and creating a sense of place. We propose the usefulness of place-dependent capital as an alternative theoretical tool, which acknowledges both structural and experiential dimensions of musical taste, allowing us to demonstrate the situatedness of indie music fans’ tastes.
U2 - 10.1177/0038038519860399
DO - 10.1177/0038038519860399
M3 - Journal article
VL - 54
SP - 124
EP - 141
JO - Sociology
JF - Sociology
SN - 0038-0385
IS - 1
ER -