In the early 1970s a collection of singer-songwriters, musicians, and music business operatives captured the imagination of a national audience and launched Austin's reputation as a powerful and prolific international music scene. At the beginning of this seminal decade, the songs, the sounds, and the identities that took shape in Austin's music venues, studios, and back rooms gained traction in the national marketplace by cultivating a cross-cultural, cross-generational musical hybrid that came to be known as "progressive country." This dissertation tells the story of this music scene and explains why it's a story worth recounting in the course of American popular culture. The story begins by focusing on the meaning and utility of a music scene. To this end, I review a series of scholarly scene studies in an attempt to identify common currents of "sceneness" that I contrast with my findings as a participant observer in the Austin musical scene from 1967 to the present. The study then surveys the extant sources on Austin's music history, a commonly accepted history that I'm calling the "creation myth." This "myth" is expanded by introducing new voices, new interpretations, and new developments that have been under emphasized or overlooked in previous accounts. This analysis establishes the foundation for the unifying theme of this study, a theme based on the seminal significance, power, and durability of the song in the Austin music scene. The song was the driving force behind Austin's remarkable climate of musical creativity. The study then focuses on the local scene of the late 1960s as a precursor to the decade of the singer-songwriters. This was a highly productive era in Austin's creative history and although overshadowed by the popular splash of the 1970s, this period provided the underpinnings for music making in Austin for years to come. In the next section, the song is revisited by examining its history and its role in Western culture. Stated simply, songs are important—songs matter. They may mean different things to different people and play different roles in different societies, but they are an essential component of civilization. The discussion then expands from the efficacy of the popular song to the essence of their creators by examining the early professional careers of three prominent Austin-based songwriters—Steven Fromholz, Michael Martin Murphey and Jerry Jeff Walker. Weighing the differences in their respective styles and considering their commonalities help illuminate the process by which the song permeated the creative fabric of the period. The dissertation then explores the creative output of the Austin music scene by focusing on what I'm calling "cultural products." Certainly the songs of the era are prime examples of cultural products and are addressed throughout the dissertation. In this final segment however, I single out four examples of cultural products that are rooted in the 1970s that have either played a notable role in the historical current of Austin music or that continue to contribute to American popular culture in the 21st century. / text

This thesis deals with the music group Extempore since its foundation by Jaroslav Jeronym Neduha in 1973 until its annulment by Mikolas Chadima in 1981. The thesis shows the important moments of the group and its members. Jaroslav Jeronym Neduha was Extempore's frontman by the year 1979 then he left the group and its management handed to Mikolas Chadima. Both gave to Extempore its characteristic style in the musical aspect, lyrics and performance. Extempore gained lots of fans, so the State Security focused on them as a obnoxius music group. The thesis has the aim to reveal Extempore's role in Czech musical underground. Firstly I defined alternative culture in relation to underground and official culture with focus to the music. Also I described Prague's unofficial big beat scene between 1973 - 1981. Primarily the thesis is focused on alternative music scene and musical underground. The review also contains other noncommercial movements during that time - folk association Safran and younger musical movement New Wave that inspirated Chadima's Extempore. Since the 1979 Extempore has been more and more pressed to the illegality until they got ban to perform their music in any Prague's club. Anyways they pushed for public performances and they kept up in free creation. An important outcome is fact that...

Analiso a constituição e o desenvolvimento das cenas do \"rock paulista\" e do \"rock carioca\" na década de 1980, no intento de compreender quais relações foram estabelecidas com suas metrópoles de origem, com os influxos estrangeiros e com a forte tradição da música popular brasileira construída entre os anos de 1930 e 1970. Objetivo também entender que ideia de \"rock brasileiro\" consagrou-se ao final do período, quais elementos foram incluídos e excluídos desta categoria. Assim, desvendam-se como as dinâmicas social, cultural e econômica de cada cidade imprimiram uma dicção própria às cenas; sonoridades e narrativas foram elaboradas e tensionadas com o contexto local, rendendo perspectivas e linguagens artísticas distintas. Com a inserção dos grupos na indústria fonográfica, concentrada no Rio de Janeiro, as linguagens artísticas desenvolvidas em cada cena não desapareceram, ao contrário, eles foram alçados em meio às disputas simbólicas entre os músicos, críticos e produtores musicais acerca do que seria produzir \"rock brasileiro\". / I analyze the formation and development of the scenes of the \"paulista rock\" and \"carioca rock\" in the 1980s, in an attempt to understand what relations were established with their home cities, with foreign inflows and the strong tradition of popular music Brazilian built between 1930 and 1970. I aim also understand that the idea of \"Brazilian rock\" was consecrated in the end of the period, which elements were included and excluded from this category. Thus is revealed as the social, cultural and economic dynamics of each city printed its own diction to the scenes; sonorities and narratives were created and tensioned with the local context, rendering perspectives and different artistic languages. With the inclusion of groups in the music industry, concentrated in Rio de Janeiro, the artistic languages developed in each scene did not disappear, on the contrary, they reached in the midst of symbolic disputes among musicians, critics and music producers about what would a \"Brazilian rock\".

Analiso a constituição e o desenvolvimento das cenas do \"rock paulista\" e do \"rock carioca\" na década de 1980, no intento de compreender quais relações foram estabelecidas com suas metrópoles de origem, com os influxos estrangeiros e com a forte tradição da música popular brasileira construída entre os anos de 1930 e 1970. Objetivo também entender que ideia de \"rock brasileiro\" consagrou-se ao final do período, quais elementos foram incluídos e excluídos desta categoria. Assim, desvendam-se como as dinâmicas social, cultural e econômica de cada cidade imprimiram uma dicção própria às cenas; sonoridades e narrativas foram elaboradas e tensionadas com o contexto local, rendendo perspectivas e linguagens artísticas distintas. Com a inserção dos grupos na indústria fonográfica, concentrada no Rio de Janeiro, as linguagens artísticas desenvolvidas em cada cena não desapareceram, ao contrário, eles foram alçados em meio às disputas simbólicas entre os músicos, críticos e produtores musicais acerca do que seria produzir \"rock brasileiro\". / I analyze the formation and development of the scenes of the \"paulista rock\" and \"carioca rock\" in the 1980s, in an attempt to understand what relations were established with their home cities, with foreign inflows and the strong tradition of popular music Brazilian built between 1930 and 1970. I aim also understand that the idea of \"Brazilian rock\" was consecrated in the end of the period, which elements were included and excluded from this category. Thus is revealed as the social, cultural and economic dynamics of each city printed its own diction to the scenes; sonorities and narratives were created and tensioned with the local context, rendering perspectives and different artistic languages. With the inclusion of groups in the music industry, concentrated in Rio de Janeiro, the artistic languages developed in each scene did not disappear, on the contrary, they reached in the midst of symbolic disputes among musicians, critics and music producers about what would a \"Brazilian rock\".

<p>Ireland has long been famous for its rich traditional music. Yet the recent global success of Irish pop, rock and traditional music has transformed the Irish music scene into a world centre attracting musicians, tourists, fans and the music industry from both Ireland and abroad. This ethnographic study of young musicians in Dublin and Galway in the late 1990s analyses the Irish music scene in terms of identity, authenticity and transnationality contextualised in contemporary Ireland.</p><p>The study explores the making of Dublin and Galway into central places in the Irish music scene. It identifies musical links between the cities, and how for the young musicians, Dublin has become a 'springboard' and Galway a 'playground'. These cities provide the local arenas where young folk and popular musicians negotiate individual and collective lifestyles, identities and musical genres. By developing the concept of 'musical pathways', the study shows how these mobile musicians constantly interact with different musical sounds and scenes.</p><p>The idea that Irishness has to emanate from traditional music is challenged by a diversity of musical genres and pathways of the musicians. Some musicians embrace a certain construction of Irishness while others reject it, but they are all involved in this process in one way or another. Contrary to older generations of traditional musicians, a global awareness is more important among the young musicians than a 'restricted' view of Irishness. As the young musicians are interested in multiple musical ideas and influences, they are often reluctant about a 'narrow nationalism'. They make use of the fact that the musics of the contemporary world are very much interconnected.</p><p>This study discusses transnational processes of the Irish music scene in the late 1990s primarily on local and national levels in Ireland. This reveals how globalisation has contributed to the popularity of Irish music, yet without controlling its pathways completely. In Ireland the past is still in the present.</p>

Ireland has long been famous for its rich traditional music. Yet the recent global success of Irish pop, rock and traditional music has transformed the Irish music scene into a world centre attracting musicians, tourists, fans and the music industry from both Ireland and abroad. This ethnographic study of young musicians in Dublin and Galway in the late 1990s analyses the Irish music scene in terms of identity, authenticity and transnationality contextualised in contemporary Ireland. The study explores the making of Dublin and Galway into central places in the Irish music scene. It identifies musical links between the cities, and how for the young musicians, Dublin has become a 'springboard' and Galway a 'playground'. These cities provide the local arenas where young folk and popular musicians negotiate individual and collective lifestyles, identities and musical genres. By developing the concept of 'musical pathways', the study shows how these mobile musicians constantly interact with different musical sounds and scenes. The idea that Irishness has to emanate from traditional music is challenged by a diversity of musical genres and pathways of the musicians. Some musicians embrace a certain construction of Irishness while others reject it, but they are all involved in this process in one way or another. Contrary to older generations of traditional musicians, a global awareness is more important among the young musicians than a 'restricted' view of Irishness. As the young musicians are interested in multiple musical ideas and influences, they are often reluctant about a 'narrow nationalism'. They make use of the fact that the musics of the contemporary world are very much interconnected. This study discusses transnational processes of the Irish music scene in the late 1990s primarily on local and national levels in Ireland. This reveals how globalisation has contributed to the popularity of Irish music, yet without controlling its pathways completely. In Ireland the past is still in the present.

The main focus of this thesis is to understand the myriad ways in which crust punk as an expressive cultural form creates meaning, forms the basis for social formation (or music scene), and informs the ways in which its participants both interact with and understand the world around them. Fieldwork for this research was conducted during the summer of 2012 in Austin, Texas. Primary methodology included participant observation, semi-structured interviews, and online ethnography. Additional research data was collected over the last five years through my own personal involvement with the crust punk music scene. The first section examines the ways in which crust punk as a genre both continues to evolve by avoiding and disavowing genre definitions and boundaries. The second section addresses my particular experiences with the Austin, Texas crust punk scene. I separate and examine the differences within the scene among and between differing levels of participation in various scene practices. These practices include the everyday practices necessary to maintain the music scene, as well as “anarchist” practices such as squatting, train hopping, transiency, and refusal to work. In the final section, I argue that in the crust punk scene dystopian performatives enable an apocalyptic and dystopic view of the world, building upon Jill Dolan’s theory of utopian performatives. I also outline my theory on how dystopian performatives and apocalyptic rhetoric work together to inflect crust punk structures of feelings and social imaginaries.

The diploma thesis discusses the Czech club music scene in the context of the transformation of the music industry in recent years. The first section describes recent trends in the music market in the world and in the Czech Republic. The second part is devoted to the specifics of the management and promotion of Czech music scene at club level, defines classical models of contracts between artists, managers, record companies and other entities. The following chapter describes the possibilities of the multi-source financing of the club music scene. The next two chapters characterize cultural policies of Austria and Germany with a focus on creative industries and of the club music scene. The last part is devoted to a specific modelated project, an organization focused on music export and promotional activities.

The Gems of Jazz is a prospective TV series that features local New Orleans Jazz musicians. The purpose of the show, created and hosted by Virgile Beddok, is to look into the lives of the people who make the New Orleans Jazz scene all that it is, and has been. This paper delves into each stage of the creative and production processes that enabled the completion of this pilot episode which features master drummer Herlin Riley as a guest.

Christian rock music isn´t an unfamiliar concept, but its development in Czech lands dates back only to the nineties of the last century. The author tries to compare Western and domestic musical culture to chart the history of rock music for Christians, its origin, meaning and development in the world as well as in Czech Republic.