Scenesterism

Origin

en + -scenester + ism

Full definition of scenesterism

Noun

1. The culture of scenesters; involvement in a lifestyle associated with a particular music scene.
• 2012, Stuart Berman , Too Much Trouble: A Very Oral History of Danko Jones, 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.
• 2016 , Mark Mattern , Anarchism and Art: Democracy in the Cracks and on the Margins, 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.
• 2019, Joseph Menn , Cult of the Dead Cow, In 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."