Music Worlds and Event Networks: An Exposition

Musical activity in contemporary societies clusters distinct ‘music worlds’, centred on such factors as style and/or locality. A number of studies have analysed these music worlds networks participants, linked a variety ways. This is useful but only captures some aspects worlds, neglecting others. In this article I introduce the concept ‘event networks’ complement which allows us to capture much that ‘participant exclude. An event network sequence events, gigs, certain pairs are by flow both participants (e.g. artists, audience members and support personnel) various resources (evolving) conventions those carry with them. It forms an important part social structure world we can analyse it, empirically, using analysis (SNA). first elaborate theoretically upon its significance relation worlds. second develop via illustrative empirical network. The purpose stimulate further discussion networks, interpretation their properties possibilities for future analyses.