Enacting Music Scenes: Mobility, Locality and Cultural Production
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2012
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ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
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Cluster theories assume 'locality' to be a bounded and fixed spatiality characterized by shared worlds-of-life, strong ties and co-presence. This paper contests the immobility of such a definition. Drawing on the case of Santiago's experimental music scene, in Chile, I argue for a mobile, transient and fluid approach to localized (cultural) economies. The empirical evidence indicates that Santiago's experimental music scene - an innovative and productive de facto cluster - performs (and unrolls) a decentered, episodic and itinerant geography enacted by porous, technologically mediated and contingent projects. These results call for new perspectives when thinking about economic innovation in general and cultural clusters within transitional cities in particular.
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Experimental music, clustering, spatial enactment, Santiago, ECONOMIC-DEVELOPMENT, INNER-CITY, INNOVATION, GEOGRAPHY, CONTEXT, INSTITUTIONS, INDUSTRIES, KNOWLEDGE, NETWORKS, CLUSTERS