The analysis of a variety of communication theories helps us understand how musical communities come together; how their ideals, styles and beliefs are propagated internally; how they choose to represent themselves to the world outside the scene; and how they respond to the attention that the outside world (especially through mass media processes) reflects back to them. Communication theory also
. helps us understand how and why music scenes form protected cultural spheres around themselves, attempting control of the threatening the forces of corruption and co-optation on the outside. There are three different ways in which communication takes place in relation to a musical scene, and I will look at each in turn: the diffusion of information and communication from actor to actor within a musical scene; the communication methods and modes a musical scene chooses when attempting to communicate with the world outside it; and the way that the world outside presents a reflexive picture back to the musical scene [10] .
