Music community

The internet has made it possible for a more dispersed music community to use the web for communication, either via specialized websites or through broader social media.

A large part of this discipline consists of studies of groups of people who frequently exchange and communicate musical material.

[3] Barry Shank, writing in 1994 of Rock and roll in Austin, Texas, used the word "subculture" to define the shifting meanings and membership of musical communities, or cultural spaces.

[6] Musical communities typically have very flexible structures, voluntary membership and people of a wide range of ages.

[11] Teachers may deliberately foster development of a music community within their school, which can assist students in reaching their full potential.

[12] Such teachers may build on the Suzuki method in the belief that cooperation in group classes plays an important role, and that competition is inappropriate.

It took the form of a chat page on its website that let fans of John Prine exchange views and information.

[17] However, as Prine ceased performing while fighting cancer, and no new recordings were released, the community ran out of information to exchange and went into decline.

Cyber-ethnography using the framework of Étienne Wenger's social learning theory shows that sites like this may be considered a community of practice (CoP).

[30] However, according to Mary McCarthy a music community should teach uninitiated listeners or musicians, and an online group cannot fill this role.

[31] Vampr is a social network app for people in the music industry to discover, connect and build a community of other like-minded musicians and professionals.