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Independence in 21st-Century Popular Music
Cases from Beyond Anglo-America
Independence in 21st-Century Popular Music
Cases from Beyond Anglo-America
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Can music be made “independently” in the 21st century?
More than a generation of musicians, music workers, and music companies have now been operating in the context of the profound shifts in music production and dissemination in the “digital era.” Scholarly focus on musical independence has often been centered on genres, like punk and indie, rooted in the US and UK. This volume, focused outside the Euro-American context, shows the variety of ways musicians, music workers and businesses manage the economic, media and cultural shifts propelled by digitalization, asking what it means now to say one is “independent.” It brings together scholars from around the globe who are researching forms of music production, circulation, consumption and finance that blur the boundaries between the dominant corporate players and “independent” cultural production. With chapters detailing popular music in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Cuba, Indonesia, Portugal, Spain and Taiwan, independence is shown to be a concept and practice simultaneously nebulous, contradictory, and practical.
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Acknowledgments
Chapter 1: Putting Music Independence into Perspective: An Historical and Global Overview
By Pedro Belchior Nunes, Shannon Garland, and Pedro Roxo
Part I: Labels, Genres and Mediations
Chapter 2: Independent, Alternative, Autonomous: Brazilian Experiences with Recorded Music in the Digital Age
By Marcia Tosta Dias
Chapter 3: Clean Feed Jazz Label: “Wrong but Strong.” “Independent” Music Production and the Continued Commercialization of Cds in the Global 21st Century
By Pedro Roxo
Chapter 4: From the Ghetto to the World: Batida, the Nexus Príncipe Discos-Filho Único and the Legitimization of Afrodiasporic Music Practices From the Outskirts Of Lisbon
By Pedro Belchior Nunes and Otávio Raposo
Chapter 5: Independence is Our Only Choice: Associations and Collectives as Micro-Independent Record Labels in Galicia (2010-2020)
By Cibrán Tenreiro Uzal
Part II: Government Funding, Self-Management and the Corporatization of Independence
Chapter 6: Rising Under DIY Entrepreneurship and “Subsidyism”: Taiwan's Indie Music in the 21st Century
By Miaoju Jian
Chapter 7: From Crisis to Reinvention: Independent Music in Argentina Post-2001
By Victoria Irisarri and Ornela Boix
Chapter 8: Funk De São Paulo: An Independent Music Production Circuit on the Outskirts of a Brazilian Metropolis
By Eduardo Vicente and Leonardo De Marchi
Chapter 9: Independent of a Wage: Volunteering to Industrialize Indie for Sofar Sounds
By Shannon Garland
Part III: Political Regimes, Independent Ethos & Forms of Music Organization
Chapter 10: Juvenile Pleasures, Embodied Fights: The Pokemón Scene and the Early Reggaetón Industries in Chile, 2004-2010
By Ana María Díaz Pinto
Chapter 11: From College Campus to Superbad!-A Trajectory of an Indie Movement in Indonesia
By Rizky Sasono
Chapter 12: Sneaking Across the Digital Divide: Usb Sticks and the Infrastructure of Independent Cuban Music
By Mike Levine
Afterword: Capitalism and Its Discontented
by Timothy D. Taylor
List of Contributors
Product details
| Published | 20 Feb 2025 |
|---|---|
| Format | Hardback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 344 |
| ISBN | 9798765112755 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Dimensions | 229 x 152 mm |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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