Electronic Dunes and Downtown Vibes. The Social Construction of an Underground Electro Scene in Tunisia

Barone, Stefano orcid iconORCID: 0000-0003-0437-9452 (2019) Electronic Dunes and Downtown Vibes. The Social Construction of an Underground Electro Scene in Tunisia. Popular Music and Society . ISSN 0300-7766

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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/03007766.2019.1565627

Abstract

The paper explores the making of an electronic music scene in Tunisia, before and after the country’s 2010/2011 revolution. Such a scene developed in the context of a pre-existing “mainstream” club circuit, which embodied many political and social features of pre-revolutionary Tunisia. The electro scene activists managed to react against such a mainstream, but they were obliged to borrow its infrastructures and thus negotiate with its social characteristics. Different sections of the scene accepted or refused different elements of the perceived mainstream. As a result, they produced different and conflicting understandings of the local “underground”.


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