This book explores the influence of geographical isolation and peripherality on the functioning of music industries and scenes which operate within and from such locales. Contextualised within established understandings of music’s relationship to place, and the notion of the music scene, insights and perspectives are offered from a diverse range of geographical locations including Australia, Canada, Chile, the Faroe Islands, Iceland, Ireland, Papua New Guinea, and the United States. As is explored, a tension results from the removal from core centres of creative and business activity: distance and inhabitable terrain require high investments of time and money to overcome along with perceptual challenges around the legitimacy and validity of musical outputs from peripheral locales. Significantly however, these music scenes are home to dynamic and innovative modes of learning, resource development, and ultimately, sector sustention practices, which offset and far outweigh the barriers resulting from geographical isolation and peripherality.weiterlesen