[Air-l] indie music scenes + internet

[Andrew Whelan]

Hi Holly, all,
the following might be useful:

Caspary, Costa, and Wolfram Manzenreiter. 2003. "From subculture to
cyberculture? The Japanese Noise alliance and the Internet." Pp. 60-74
in Japanese Cybercultures, edited by Nanette Gottlieb and Mark
McLelland. London: Routledge.
Williams, J. Patrick. 2006. "Authentic Identities: Straightedge
Subculture, Music, and the Internet." Journal of Contemporary
Ethnography, vol. 35, no. 2, pp. 173-200.

Also, Widerstand records (http://widerstand.org/) recently released a
half-hour documentary, 'Notes on Breakcore', currently circulating as
a torrent. In this documentary a number of breakcore producers and DJs
discuss the reconstitution of the 'scene' by the internet and the role
online plays offline, as it were. Hope this helps.
Best,
Andrew


On 5/10/07, Hugemusic <hmusic at ozemail.com.au> wrote:
> 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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