Geographically Isolated and Peripheral Music Scenes

Dr Christina Ballico is an Adjunct Research Fellow at the Queensland Conservatorium Research Centre, Griffith University, Australia, and the co-editor of Music Cities: Evaluating a Global Policy Concept (2020).

Introduction.- Heard, not scene? Dublin’s popular music viewed from the inside and outside.- You get to know the scene inside out, but the cost of travel is a burden: The impacts of isolation and peripherality on the contemporary music scene of Perth, Western Australia.- Wild Nights in the Cool North: Embracing Otherness in Icelandic and Faroese Music Festivals.- The Dawson City Music Festival and a Small-town Scene at the Periphery of the Music Industries.- Social media in Chile’s indie music scene: crossing local and global boundaries.- Linguistic and Geographic Diversity’s Impact on Popular Music in Papua New Guinea.- Industrial Isolation and Cultural Self-Exile: The Formation of an Independent Music Scene in Montreal.- Don’t Mess With Texas: Austin’s Roundtrip Journey from the Periphery to the Center of the Earth.- Conclusion.