DIY Cultures and Underground Music Scenes

ISBN-13: 9780367664510 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 250 str.

Andy Bennett; Paula Guerra

Opis

This book critically considers how the DIY concept can be used to study contemporary underground music scenes examining themes such as local and trans-local connections, technological change, cultural policy, memory and heritage.

Spis treści

Introduction  Part I: Underground Music Scenes between the Local and the Translocal  1. Rethinking DIY Culture in a Post-Industrial and Global Context  2. Visibility and Conviviality in Music Scenes  3. Punk Stories  4. Between Popular and Underground Culture: An Analysis of Bucharest Urban Culture  5. The DIY as a Constitutive Resource of the Specific Punk Capital in France  6. Boys in Black, Girls in Punk: Gender Performances in the Goth and Hardcore Punk Scenes in Northern Germany  Part II: Music and DIY Cultures: DIY or Die!  7. Music, Protest Politics, DIY and Identity in the Basque Country  8. Home Economics: Fusing Imaginaries in the Musical Underground of Wellington, New Zealand  9. Proud Amateurs: Deterritorialized Expertise in Contemporary Finnish DIY Micro-Labels  10. Noise Records as Noise Culture: DIY Practices, Aesthetics and Trades  11. Punk Positif: The DIY Ethic and the Politics of Value in the Indonesian Hardcore Punk Scene  Part III: Art, Music and Technological Change  12. So Far, Yet So Near: The Brazilian DIY Politics of Sofar Sounds – A Collaborative Network for Live Music Audiences  13. Cassette Cultures in Berlin: Resurgence, DIY Freedom or Sellout?  14. Here Today: The Role of Ephemera in Clarifying Underground Culture  15. Birth of an Underground Music Scene? Creative Networks and (Digital) DIY Technologies in a Hungarian Context  Part IV: Music Scenes, Memory and Emotional Geographies  16. The Inoperative Subculture: History, Identity and Avant-Gardism in Garage Rock  17. Collectivity and Individuality in US Free Folk Musics  18. The Independent Record Label, Ideology and Longevity: Twenty Years of Chemikal Underground Records in Glasgow  19. Verbal Sound System (1997–98): Recalling a Raver’s DIY Practices in the British Free Party Counterculture  20. A Howl of the Estranged: Post-Punk and Contemporary Underground Scenes in Bulgarian Popular Music

O autorze

Andy Bennett is Professor of Cultural Sociology in the School of Humanities, Languages and Social Science at Griffith University. A leading international figure in sociological studies of popular music and youth culture, he has written and edited numerous books, including Popular Music and Youth Culture, Music, Style, and Aging and Music Scenes (co-edited with Richard A. Peterson). He is a faculty fellow of the Yale Centre for Cultural Sociology, an international research fellow of the Finnish Youth Research Network, a founding member of the Consortium for Youth, Generations and Culture, and a founding member of the Regional Music Research Group. He is also the co-founder and co-cordinator of KISMIF Conference. URL: www.kismifconference.com/en/.

Paula Guerra is Professor of Sociology in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at the University of Porto (FLUP), and a Senior Researcher in the Institute of Sociology (IS-UP). She is also Invited Researcher at the Centre for Geography Studies and Territory Planning (CEGOT) and CITCEM – Transdisciplinary Research Centre ‘Culture, Space and Memory’ at the University of Porto (UP), and Adjunct Professor at Griffith Centre for Social and Cultural Research (GCSCR). Professor Guerra was the Head Researcher of ‘Keep it simple, Make it fast! Prolegomena and Punk scenes – a Road to Portuguese Contemporaneity (1977–2012)’, an international and interdisciplinary project about the Portuguese (and global) punk and underground scenes. She is also the co-founder and co-coordinator of KISMIF Conference. URL: www.kismifconference.com/en/.