Introduction: Scenes and memory.- Part I: Concepts.- 1.Scene 'theory': History, usage and influence.- 2.Music, memory, space and place.- Part II: Case studies.- 3.The origins of taste and precursors of scenes.- 4.Scenes, memory and the spaces of music consumption.- 5.Spaces of local music production.- 6.Virtuality: Images and the local archive.- 7.The distance from an unknown centre: The discourses of periphery and edge in music scenes