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... of themselves it could play. Within independent rock music culture, the cassette became both a pivotal medium of distribution and a motif in some of that subculture's defining dramas. media history formats cassettes independent music ...

... This chapter considers how the self-released cassette contributed to independent rock music and culture, serving as a means of distribution and a symbol of community. Cassette culture emerged in the 1980s as a network of musical outsiders who communicated by mail. As different as cassette...

... outlived its heyday, as online vendors continued to deploy it as a metaphor to ground the daunting flow of digital music. mix tapes cassettes hip-hop independent music ...

... This chapter considers the cassette's contribution to the careers of independent rock musicians in relation to the music industry's favored formats. Although cassette releases helped launch many indie careers, they most often were understood as promotional instruments. Musicians valued...

..., and Tourism, called KOCCA (the Korea Creative Content Agency), which has initiated several projects to support local musicians, including idol groups, independent musicians, solo artists, and even traditional Korean music gugak -oriented fusion bands. Lee claims that the government contributes to not only...

... the Dust” indicated that dance music could still cross over, the majors declined to develop these records beyond a pop context. The corporate exodus presented the city’s independent labels and record stores with an opportunity; Vinyl Mania emerged as a particularly influential store. As national disco...

... listenership. This chapter outlines how Adderley’s LP was part of a much wider trend by independent jazz labels to record Black hard-bop musicians on location at jazz nightclubs in the mid 1950s. Quintet in San Francisco thus sits at the intersection of the record industry’s experiments with live recording...

... This chapter examines the versions of national identity enacted in the Argentine public sphere in 2010, during the official festivities commemorating the bicentennial of that country’s independence movement against Spanish rule. It analyzes the uses of symbols of high culture and musical harmony...

... Chapter 7 chronicles—week by week, milestone by milestone—how “Old Town Road” came to dominate 2019 pop culture and the charts. At the start of the year, Lil Nas X was still a closeted teenager living on his sister's couch; he was an independent recording artist trying to make his song go viral...

... If capitalism creates other forms of value that accompany it, there remain still other forms of value that can exist apart from it. This chapter is based on an ethnographic study of the independent (indie) rock scene in the east-side Los Angeles neighborhood of Echo Park. There is very little...

... Chapter 7 follows Umzansi Zulu Dancers into an independent recording studio. After descriptions of the changed landscape of music recording in Johannesburg and the demographic shifts in the personnel inside studios over the last two decades, the ethnographic attention turns to the details...

... an agency affiliated with the Ministry of Culture, Sports, and Tourism, called KOCCA (the Korea Creative Content Agency), which has initiated several projects to support local musicians, including idol groups, independent musicians, solo artists, and even traditional Korean music gugak -oriented fusion...

... Chapter 2 investigates the jazz industry’s transition to the LP format through the activities of Prestige Records, Bob Weinstock (the label’s owner), and the musicians that this independent label employed. This chapter attends to the commercial infrastructures of the jazz record business through...

... the bicentennial of that country’s independence movement against Spanish rule. It analyzes the uses of symbols of high culture and musical harmony as tropes of a political order presumably threatened by increasingly polarized social relations. The bicentennial’s cultural events created the conditions...

... as a phenomenon in itself, independent of materiality. These concepts led Schaeffer to attempt a new classification and description of sounds, in which the traditional aspects of musical sound (pitch, duration, intensity, and timbre) would be rethought in different terms: mass, maintenance, grain, caliber...

... the successes of Blondie’s “Rapture” and Queen’s “Another One Bites the Dust” indicated that dance music could still cross over, the majors declined to develop these records beyond a pop context. The corporate exodus presented the city’s independent labels and record stores with an opportunity; Vinyl Mania...