Creating a scene: Balinese punk's beginnings

• The promotion of alternative music by deregulated television and recording industries, together with the increasingly felt presence of the metropolis, converged on Balinese cultural and physical landscapes in the 1990s. Mirroring developments in broader society, a regionalist discourse, which pola...

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Published in:International journal of cultural studies 2002-06, Vol.5 (2), p.153-177
Main Author: Baulch, Emma
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Bali
Center and Periphery
Cultural studies
Discourse
Globalization
Identity
Identity Politics
Indonesia
Metropolis
Metropolitan Areas
Music
Regionalism
Social Space
Sociology
Sociology of knowledge and sociology of culture
Sociology of leisure and mass culture
Subculture
Subcultures
Youth
Youth Culture
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Summary:• The promotion of alternative music by deregulated television and recording industries, together with the increasingly felt presence of the metropolis, converged on Balinese cultural and physical landscapes in the 1990s. Mirroring developments in broader society, a regionalist discourse, which polarized notions of `centre' and `periphery', emerged among Balinese youth in the context of the local band scene. For certain musicians, musical authenticity was firmly rooted in a cultural and geographical locale, and was articulated by their abhorrence for socializing at shopping malls. In contrast, these Balinese alternative (including punk) musicians sought authenticity in a metropolitan elsewhere. This article is a case study of the indigenization of a `global' code in a non-western periphery. It contests arguments for the `post-imperial' nature of globalization, and demonstrates the continued salience of centre—periphery dialectics in local discourses. At the same time, the study attests to the progressive role a metropolitan superculture can play in cultural renewal in the periphery. •
ISSN:1367-8779
1460-356X
DOI:10.1177/1367877902005002569