@inbook{7f7c3e0c0478441486f553591da71492,
title = "Music at the end of the land: reflections on the Pembrokeshire Music Network",
abstract = "Focussing on a creative network in rural Pembrokeshire (rather than a wider {\textquoteleft}scene{\textquoteright} juxtaposing creativity and {\textquoteleft}fandom{\textquoteright}), this chapter examines music as emerging from – and representative of – the people, developed within bounded locales, and involving traditional practices and cultural reproductions, investments and self-reflections (Williams, 1961; Miles, 2019). The research examines an extant, fluid, and occasionally incongruous musical collective dissociated over time and genres, but not necessarily geographical spaces of locale and venues, highlighting a contrast between rural and urban creativity, the strategies of self-empowerment, collective ambition and personal satiation, and the distinctions between what are termed {\textquoteleft}embedded{\textquoteright}, {\textquoteleft}parallel{\textquoteright} and {\textquoteleft}ephemeral{\textquoteright} strategies of music-making that highlight both the longevity of the scene and the omnipresent geographical, social and economic forces that continually threaten its existence.",
keywords = "Music, creative network",
author = "Philip Miles",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG. 2023.",
year = "2023",
month = mar,
day = "22",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-031-08615-1\_1",
language = "English",
isbn = "9783031086144",
series = "Pop Music, Culture, and Identity",
publisher = "Palgrave Macmillan",
pages = "3--17",
editor = "Bennett, \{Andy \} and Cashman, \{ David \} and Green, \{ Ben \} and Lewandowski, \{Natalie \}",
booktitle = "Popular Music Scenes: Regional and Rural Perspectives",
address = "United Kingdom",
}