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Independence in 21st-Century Popular Music: Cases from Beyond Anglo-America

Independence in 21st-Century Popular Music: Cases from Beyond Anglo-America

Hardcover

Business GeneralMusic BusinessMusic Recording & Reproduction

ISBN13: 9798765112755
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: Feb 20 2025
Pages: 344
Weight: 1.38
Height: 0.81 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Can music be made independently in the 21st century?

More than a generation of musicians, music workers, and music companies have now been operating in the context of the profound shifts in music production and dissemination in the digital era. Scholarly focus on musical independence has often been centered on genres, like punk and indie, rooted in the US and UK. This volume, focused outside the Euro-American context, shows the variety of ways musicians, music workers and businesses manage the economic, media and cultural shifts propelled by digitalization, asking what it means now to say one is independent. It brings together scholars from around the globe who are researching forms of music production, circulation, consumption and finance that blur the boundaries between the dominant corporate players and independent cultural production. With chapters detailing popular music in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Cuba, Indonesia, Portugal, Spain and Taiwan, independence is shown to be a concept and practice simultaneously nebulous, contradictory, and practical.

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