The Counter-Cultural Online Frontier-Or the Quest for Mythological Balance through Eternal Movement

Henrik B0dker
unpublished
This article grows out of a general interest in popular music and its connected practices-in relation to notions and theories of consumption and/or use, as well as a more specific interest in the movement of such practices unto a new ten-ain via the Internet. A different, but closely related area of concern, is the issue of how the various hi stories of popular music associated with the counter-cultural sixties are a part of this new tenain, histories which upon examination are found to involve
more » ... the propagation of a wide range of cultural ideals. Such a perspective allows one to focus on particular practices connected with the consumption of popular music and those of the Internet, namely the interrelated aspects of c.;umrnunity and (commodity-) exchanges. The ensuing enquiry focuses primarily on the former of these. In particular, I want to draw attention to the various ways in which certain early and agenda-setting conceptualizations of community in relation to the Internet may be seen to be rooted in specific historical experiences and cultural practices. Examinations of these in one form or another still underpin a substantial part of the rapidly expanding number of Internet-community studies, producing what might be seen as a special sixties-inflected view of mediated communities; r wish to discuss why
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