ABSTRACT
This volume examines the global influence and impact of DIY cultural practice as this informs the production, performance and consumption of underground music in different parts of the world. The book brings together a series of original studies of DIY musical activities in Europe, North and South America, Asia and Oceania. The chapters combine insights from established academic writers with the work of younger scholars, some of whom are directly engaged in contemporary underground music scenes.
The book begins by revisiting and re-evaluating key themes and issues that have been used in studying the cultural meaning of alternative and underground music scenes, notably aspects of space, place and identity and the political economy of DIY cultural practice. The book then explores how the DIY cultural practices that characterize alternative and underground music scenes have been impacted and influenced by technological change, notably the emergence of digital media. Finally, in acknowledging the over 40-year history of DIY cultural practice in punk and post-punk contexts, the book considers how DIY cultures have become embedded in cultural memory and the emotional geographies of place.
Through combining high-quality data and fresh conceptual insights in the context of an international body of work spanning the disciplines of popular-music studies, cultural and media studies, and sociology the book offers a series of innovative new directions in the study of DIY cultures and underground/alternative music scenes. This volume will be of particular interest to undergraduate students in the above-mentioned fields of study, as well as an invaluable resource for established academics and researchers working in these and related fields.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|2 pages
Underground music scenes between the local and the translocal
chapter 6|12 pages
Boys in black, girls in punk
part II|2 pages
Music and DIY cultures
chapter 9|11 pages
Proud amateurs
chapter 11|12 pages
Punk positif
part III|2 pages
Art, music and technological change
chapter 12|11 pages
So far, yet so near
chapter 15|12 pages
Birth of an underground music scene?
part IV|2 pages
Music scenes, memory and emotional geographies