[Air-l] indie music scenes + internet

[Hugemusic]

Holly.

Great topic!

A response from my own (on-going) survey of indie musos (see 
http://polling.nationalforum.com.au/index.php?sid=4) that seemed related 
(and very common):

"26. In 100 words or less, please describe what you see as the biggest 
barrier to growing your career as an artist:
the market for our stlye is not huge in tasmania. so we have to find 
international clients. "

For the record, "style" in this case means "Dark/Experiental/Ambient" ... 
respondent is Male, 17yo, quite active in Internet promotion of his band. 
Make of that what you will.

To put people who would otherwise not get this into persepctive, Tasmania is 
Australia's smallest state (pop <1million) and is notoriously conservative. 
It's the one that attracts the redneck jokes about in-breeding and so on ...

Hope this helps.  Feel free to contact me for more info if you like.  My 
survey is not specifically about location, though that's one important 
element ...

Cheers,
Hughie


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Holly Kruse" <holly-kruse at utulsa.edu>
To: <air-l at listserv.aoir.org>
Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2007 7:33 AM
Subject: Re: [Air-l] indie music scenes + internet


> Thanks to everyone for the responses so far -- very interesting.  I 
> perhaps
> should just clarify that I am especially interested in work, and just 
> plain
> ideas, that relates to local music identities and the internet.  I am 
> pretty
> well steeped in the popular music studies canon, including music and 
> notions
> of community and social networks (I've published on that) so I don't 
> really
> need help on that end.  And again, thanks so much!
>
>
> Holly
>
>
> -- 
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