DIY Cultures and Underground Music Scenes

Andy Bennett is Professor of Cultural Sociology in the School of Humanities, Languages and Social Science at Griffith University. A leading international figure in sociological studies of popular music and youth culture, he has written and edited numerous books, including Popular Music and Youth Culture, Music, Style, and Aging and Music Scenes (co-edited with Richard A. Peterson). He is a faculty fellow of the Yale Centre for Cultural Sociology, an international research fellow of the Finnish Youth Research Network, a founding member of the Consortium for Youth, Generations and Culture, and a founding member of the Regional Music Research Group. He is also the co-founder and co-cordinator of KISMIF Conference. URL: www.kismifconference.com/en/.Paula Guerra is Professor of Sociology in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at the University of Porto (FLUP), and a Senior Researcher in the Institute of Sociology (IS-UP). She is also Invited Researcher at the Centre for Geography Studies and Territory Planning (CEGOT) and CITCEM- Transdisciplinary Research Centre 'Culture, Space and Memory' at the University of Porto (UP), and Adjunct Professor at Griffith Centre for Social and Cultural Research (GCSCR). Professor Guerra was theHead Researcherof 'Keep it simple, Make it fast! Prolegomena and Punk scenes- aRoad toPortuguese Contemporaneity (1977-2012)', an international and interdisciplinary project about the Portuguese (and global) punk and underground scenes. She is also the co-founder and co-coordinator of KISMIF Conference. URL: www.kismifconference.com/en/.