Scenesterism
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 The culture of scenesters; involvement in a lifestyle associated with a particular music scene. uncountable
"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."
Example
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."
Etymology
From scenester + -ism.
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