# party (social)

a group of people who interact in a setting with music

- Computed level: L7 (depth in the emergence graph, not abstraction)
- Status: review  ·  Domain: social  ·  Arena: everyday

## Emergence
**Emerges from:** [people](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-people.social), [setting](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-setting.contextual), [music](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-music.auditory), [groups](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-groups.collection), [interacting](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-interacting.social), [interaction](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-interaction.process)

**Through:** people come and interact in the setting while music plays

**Novel properties:**
- shared social experience
- rhythmic collective behavior
- emergent group mood

## Examples
- Woodstock 1969 gathered 400,000 people in New York with performances by Jimi Hendrix and The Who. *(event)*
- The weekly dance party at Berlin’s Berghain nightclub features electronic music in a former power plant. *(everyday)*
- Tupperware launched home sales parties in the 1950s, combining socializing and commerce across U.S. suburbs. *(economics)*

## Used by
- [agreement](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-agreement.social) (L8)
- [holiday](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-holiday.leisure) (L8)

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