Identity, memory and nostalgia of the neobakala scene from Madrid
Abstract
Neobakalas are adults who build their identity appealing to a nostalgic musical and technological discourse that is used to project a hierarchy over the Electronic Dance Music (EDM), another music scene produced by youngsters. This text explores, through expanded ethnography, the construction of this identity. To do so, it recurs to the concept of music scene, the generations (X, @ and #) defined by Feixa and several proposals around nostalgia (Appadurai, Herzfeld). Nevertheless, this article does not take for granted the nostalgic discourse of the neobakalas and questions it, proposing an alternative one based on memory and history so both can be compared. This comparison between past and present will allow to see how nostalgia erodes and transforms the memory of these subjects, how they have produced several identities in different moments of their lives and how these identities may be understood as answers to a context that constantly alters their lives.
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