Word: scene
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...trendsetting city of San Francisco. Other cities of equally dubious musical importance followed suit. Last week, Boston, a city whose own popular music heritage is schizophrenic at best, jumped on the bandwagon, so to speak, with its own ceremony, cleverly titled The Boston Music Awards. Granted, Boston's music scene is vital enough to deserve recognition, and some of its local artists may even be of national caliber, but the idea of adequately acknowledging every musician who ever played or was born in Boston seems ultimately futile...
Boston's musical past suggests why an attempt to recognize Boston's music scene and to attribute such importance to it is unlikely to succeed. Twenty years ago, when San Francisco was hailed as the breeding ground for innovative rock music, record executives had similar success in mind for Boston, for no particularly good reason. They convinced Boston musicians--and themselves--that the "Bosstown Sound" was going to be the Next Big Thing. The public didn't buy it, though, and such memorable local bands as Phluph, Ultimate Spinach, and Beacon Street Union found themselves millionaires one month and broke...
...Productions, with help from local radio giant WBCN-FM, the Boston Phoenix, and even MTV--three organizations largely responsible for the promotion of many Boston acts and the neglect of many others-undertook this ambitious if quixotic effort to recognize virtually everyone in every facet of the Boston music scene, in a single evening's ceremony last week...
...scene yesterday at Soldiers Field was reminiscent of the old playground days--with a twist. The smaller kids beat up the bully...
After his stay at the Kennedy School, Pippert says he plans to jump back on to the bandwagon of political journalism. "I'm a bit out of touch with the American political scene," he acknowledges, "The last election I covered was the general election in Israel two years...