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Author Graham, Stephen (Musicologist), author.

Title Sounds of the underground : a cultural, political, and aesthetic mapping of underground and fringe music / Stephen Graham.

Publication Info. Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2016]

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Description 1 online resource
text txt rdacontent
computer c rdamedia
online resource cr rdacarrier
Series Tracking pop
Tracking pop.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-289) and index.
Note Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher.
Contents Preface; Part I-What Is the Underground?; 1. Introduction to the Underground and Its Fringes; 2. The Music and Musicians; 3. Global and Local Underground/Fringe Scenes; Part II-The Political and Cultural Underground; 4. Politics and Underground/Fringe Music; 5. Cultural Policy and Underground/Fringe Music; 6. Artists and Music, Improv and Noise; 7. The Digital Economy and Labels; 8. Festivals and Venues; Part III-Listening to the Underground; 9. Noise as Concept, History, and Scene; 10. The Politics of Underground Music and Noise; 11. The Sounds of Noise; 12. Extreme Metal
ConclusionList of Interviewees; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Summary In this book, Stephen Graham examines the largely unexplored terrain of underground music-exploratory forms of music-making, such as noise, free improvisation, and extreme metal, that exist outside or on the fringes of mainstream culture, generally independent from both the market and from traditional high-art institutions. Until now there has been little scholarly discussion of underground music and its cultural, political, and aesthetic importance. In addition to providing a much-needed historical outline of this diverse scene, Stephen Graham focuses on the digital age, showing the underground and its fringes as based largely in radical anti-capitalist politics and aesthetics, tied to the political contexts and structures of late-capitalism. Sounds of the Underground explores these various ideas of separation and capture through interviews and analysis, developing a critical account of both the music and its political and cultural economy.
Subject Underground music -- Social aspects.
Underground music -- Political aspects.
Underground music -- History and criticism.
Subculture.
Musique underground -- Aspect social.
Musique underground -- Aspect politique.
Musique underground -- Histoire et critique.
Subculture.
MUSIC -- Instruction & Study -- Theory.
MUSIC -- General.
Subculture
Underground music
Genre/Form Academic Dissertation
dissertations.
Academic theses
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Academic theses.
Thèses et écrits académiques.
Other Form: Print version: Sounds of the underground. Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2016] 9780472119752 (DLC) 2015046845
ISBN 9780472121649 (electronic book)
0472121642
0472119753
9780472119752
9780472902378 (electronic bk.)
0472902377 (electronic bk.)
Standard No. 10.3998/mpub.8295270
AU@ 000073109525

 
    
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