Stans – A Few Words about the Contemporary Music Fandoms
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https://doi.org/10.12775/LL.3.2024.006Keywords
music fans, music fandoms, stans, affect, consumer cultureAbstract
With the expansion of the New Media, fan communities have become widespread. Nowadays, being a music fan is a commonly used colloquialism. As a result – for over a decade now – we can observe a discursive change within the music fan communities: the emergence of the concept of a “stan”. In this article, the author traces this discursive change and reflects on why music fans needed it to emerge. For this purpose, she presents affective and consumer engagement of “stans”, which may constitute a distinctive characteristic distinguishing – characteristic distinguishing “stans” and fans.
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