scenesterism
scenesterism noun: the culture of scenesters; involvement in a lifestyle associated with a particular music scene.
Noun
scenesterism (uncountable)
- The culture of scenesters; involvement in a lifestyle associated with a particular music scene.
- It was an unexpected tip of the fedora from a group of artists who, like Danko Jones, had slogged it out on the late '90s American indie circuit but had since left the insular scenesterism behind to pursue loftier ambitions.2012, Stuart Berman, Too Much Trouble: A Very Oral History of Danko Jones, →ISBN
- Wasik's motivation, he claimed in 2006 and later, was to spoof the hipsterism and scenesterism that he found rampant in New York City by creating an artificial and allegedly hip new trend.2016, Mark Mattern, Anarchism and Art: Democracy in the Cracks and on the Margins, →ISBN
Origin of scenesterism
From scenester + -ism.
Questions about scenesterism
- What does scenesterism mean?
- Scenesterism means the culture of scenesters; involvement in a lifestyle associated with a particular music scene.
- What part of speech is scenesterism?
- Scenesterism is a noun.
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