ABSTRACT
An Anglophone "European" sounding band creatively reinvented and recombined international musical themes and styles. Their move toward a certain identifiable Dutchness was part of this process, not as a form of closure, but as material to experiment with. Artists’ idiosyncratic transnationalism is relatively free of concern for financial profit, as most of these acts are signed with independents or have their own companies. Pop music is the result of the combined processes of deterritorialization and reterritorialization of cultural and more specifically musical practices. Local, regional, or national musical genres and styles are incorporated by the music industry and distributed to a more general, anonymous audience and are at the same time received, reinterpreted, and reinvented in different locales, regions, and nations worldwide. Ever since rock 'n' roll derived music became the new mainstream sound, in the United States and enough in its foreign markets, pop music is interpreted as part of an all-round Americanization aka "McDonaldization" of global culture.
