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Published: 12 August 2016
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7389-6
Published: 22 March 2024
DOI: 10.1215/9781478059349-006
EISBN: 978-1-4780-5934-9
... 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...
Series: Refiguring American Music
Published: 23 April 2021
DOI: 10.1215/9781478021391-128
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2139-1
Series: Refiguring American Music
Published: 22 April 2016
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7514-2
... indie rock indie film authenticity (indie/nationalist) film festivals archipelagic ...
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By Timothy D. Taylor
Published: 22 March 2024
EISBN: 978-1-4780-5934-9
... circulation value radio indie rock ...
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By Timothy D. Taylor
Published: 22 March 2024
EISBN: 978-1-4780-5934-9
... indie rock forms of exchange reciprocity patronage ...
Series: Refiguring American Music
Published: 22 April 2016
DOI: 10.1215/9780822375142-006
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7514-2
... Ang Nawawal a (dir. Marie Jamora, 2012) and Rakenro l (dir. Quark Henares, 2011) are two coming-of-age feature films set in Manila’s indie rock scene. Because of their direct involvement in this scene, both indie directors hold the authenticity necessary for access to certain musical venues...
Series: Refiguring American Music
Published: 22 April 2016
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7514-2
... piNoise pop festival indie rock translocal scenes San Francisco Manila ...
Series: Refiguring American Music
Published: 22 April 2016
DOI: 10.1215/9780822375142-005
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7514-2
... A popular music genre with its own set of practices and attitudes, indie upholds its own set of boundaries and conventions of authenticity. When the term “indie rock” appears in journalistic or scholarly writing, it often already assumes liberal notions of race in the United States and cultural...
Published: 22 March 2024
DOI: 10.1215/9781478059349-009
EISBN: 978-1-4780-5934-9
..., and more—that constantly (re)make social life and relations. Radio serves as a case study in this chapter, especially as it plays an important role in the indie rock scene in southern California. circulation value radio indie rock ...
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By Eric Weisbard
Book: Hound Dog
Series: Singles
Published: 04 August 2023
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2707-2
... rock pedagogy indie pop digital media ...
Series: Sign, Storage, Transmission
Published: 26 January 2024
DOI: 10.1215/9781478027713-007
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2771-3
... This chapter considers indie rock culture's ritualization of mix taping. It argues that the indie mix tape tapped into an emerging understanding of popular music as a communicative resource whose creators made their feelings available to be deployed on listeners' behalf. In contrast to use...
Published: 21 February 2025
DOI: 10.1215/9781478060369-020
EISBN: 978-1-4780-6036-9
... fantasy," a means of renegotiating women's roles in patriarchal society. The chapter also explores how female vocalists such as Stevie Nicks, with her Wiccan anthem "Rhiannon" (1976), embodied and projected the witch archetype, influencing subsequent generations of Wiccan-inspired indie rock artists...
Book Chapter

By Eric Weisbard
Book: Hound Dog
Series: Singles
Published: 04 August 2023
DOI: 10.1215/9781478027072-009
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2707-2
... next in the saga of “Doggie,” “Hound Dog,” Stooges? Multitracked like Patti Page, an undeniable rocker nonetheless, Sophie Allison delivers a line from her first SiriusXMU hit, “Your Dog,” to end this tale: “I don't wanna be your fucking dog.” rock pedagogy indie pop digital media ...
Published: 21 February 2025
EISBN: 978-1-4780-6036-9
...-inspired indie rock artists. By adopting this symbolic stance, women artists of the sixties critiqued patriarchy within popular music cultures, employing essentialist notions of the numinous feminine for gender-based cultural resistance. Wicca sixties counterculture incantation vocality cultural...
Series: Sign, Storage, Transmission
Published: 26 January 2024
DOI: 10.1215/9781478027713-005
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2771-3
... 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...
Series: Sign, Storage, Transmission
Published: 26 January 2024
DOI: 10.1215/9781478027713-003
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2771-3
... 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...