Fans or Friends? Local/Translocal Dialectics of DIY (‘Do-
                                It-Yourself’) Touring and the DIY Community in the US











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            * Verbuč David
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            Abstrakt

            When studying how rock, punk, and similar cultures relate to place, scholars tend to focus
            (and on concerts as constitutive events that establish the rock music community). When the
            translocal connections, they mostly discuss non-face-to-face relations, for instance, as e

            printed or electronic media. In this paper, by ethnographically examining the interpersona
            several case studies, I demonstrate that the music community of DIY (do-it-yourself) parti
            US is constituted in large part through face-to-face interaction, not only in local places

            interaction of DIY participants both within and between music venues), but in translocal s
            touring, and similar traveling practices), as well. Local participants depend on transloca

            participants (who generate flows of ideas, sounds, objects, and people), and the transloca
            depend on their local compatriots (who provide places at which to play, or sleep). Local D
            especially DIY participants’ houses, play a significant role in this dialectic as items of

            exchange within the translocal “network of friends/favors.” In addition, they also functio
            ‘intimacy,’ in the local context as sites for small and ‘intimate’ concerts, and transloca
            hosting touring musicians as houseguests. DIY places/houses thus contribute to an experien

            and to the transformation of fans to friends for the DIY participants. In the first part o
            examine the establishment of local and translocal DIY ‘communities’ through the social pra
            (culture as travel). In this section, I also briefly discuss historical and geographical f

            consider the dimensions of race, gender, and sexuality in the American DIY touring experie
            second part, I subsequently observe the aspects and particular characteristics of DIY tour
            themselves (travel as culture), and how they reflect and generate DIY values and politics.


            Klíčová slova
            music and place/space; music and mobility; social construction of a ‘community;’ American 

            DIY touring

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