ABSTRACT Research on regional and rural popular music scenes focuses on a number of issues and challenges confronting such scenes. These include venues, work and employment, regional sensitivity to boom-and-bust scenarios in local heavy industries, tourism and leisure, and out-migration. To date, however, there has been very little critical examination of what precisely is meant by the terms “regional” or “rural” in relation to music scenes. This article considers some of the complex issues at play in the defining and enacting of region and a regional sense of place in the context of regional and rural popular music scenes.

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研究区域和乡村音乐场景：对一个理论不足的问题进行批判性理解

摘要 区域和乡村流行音乐场景的研究集中在这些场景面临的一些问题和挑战上。这些包括场地、工作和就业、对当地重工业繁荣和萧条情景的区域敏感性、旅游和休闲以及外迁。然而，迄今为止，对于与音乐场景相关的术语“区域”或“乡村”的确切含义，几乎没有进行批判性研究。本文考虑了在区域和乡村流行音乐场景背景下定义和制定区域以及区域地方感的一些复杂问题。