ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book also presents Vienna Electronica, a little-known phenomenon in the history of popular music, whose heyday was in the 1990s. It considers some of musician work as a manifestation of postmodern art, in which the division between art and science becomes blurred and the concept of originality is thrown into crisis, and investigated their links with Afrofuturism and surrealism. The book shows that many musicians were also heading their own music labels, producing the work of their peers, curating festivals and working in music shops. It aims to convince the readers that there is a need to pay more attention to the regions of the world which are neglected in popular music studies because they do not conform to the idea of 'music from the centre', yet equally do not fit the concept of 'exotic' or 'world music'.
