Meanings
- uncountableThe culture of scenesters; involvement in a lifestyle associated with a particular music scene.
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, →ISBN2 more examples
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, →ISBNIn a personal post on Medium, Laird said he hoped the ouster would help educate others about systemic sexism in hackerdom, exacerbated by a tendency toward rule-breaking, distrust of legal authorities in reporting transgressions, and some excessive scenesterism: “There's been a lot of looking the other way in the hacker community when powerful people overstep the bounds, and that has to stop."
2019, Joseph Menn, Cult of the Dead Cow, →ISBN
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