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DIY Music and the Politics of Social Media

Häftad, Engelska, 2021

AvEllis Jones,Matt Brennan

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The emergence of social media in the early 21st century promised to facilitate new "DIY" cultural approaches, emphasizing participation and democratization. However, in recent years these platforms have been criticized as domineering and exploitative. For DIY musicians in scenes with lengthy histories of cultural resistance, is social media a powerful emancipatory and democratizing tool, or a new corporate antagonist to be resisted?DIY Music explores the significant challenges faced by artists navigating this fraught cultural landscape. How do anti-commercial musicians operate in the competitive, attention-seeking world of social media? How do they deal with a new abundance of data and metrics? How do they present their activity as "cultural resistance"? This book shows that a platform-enabled DIY approach is now the norm for a wide array of cultural practitioners; this "DIY-as-default" landscape threatens to depoliticize the call to "do-it-yourself."

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2021-01-14
Mått148 x 226 x 12 mm
Vikt520 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieAlternate Takes: Critical Responses to Popular Music
Antal sidor184
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781501359637

Tillhör följande kategorier

Media och underhållning inom Ekonomi och Ledarskap
Populärmusik inom Kultur
Kulturvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik

1. The problem2. The past: a history of DIY music in three case studies 3. The personal: intimacy and identity work on social media 4. The players: gatekeeping, authority, and ownership within the scene 5. The public: elucidating difference and performing politics 6. The popular: metrics, measurements, and the DIY imagination 7. The platform: self-sufficiency and the political economy of social media8. The plan: envisioning alternative platforms

In DIY Music and the Politics of Social Media, Jones presents a rich account of how social media is used in DIY music scenes and how scene participants committed to a genuine DIY ethos connected with political and cultural resistance negotiate the tensions and contradictions this produces. Going beyond presentation and analysis of the situation that exists, Jones presents ideas for new and innovative ways for music cultures to exist online that do not involve simply accepting the way of doing things presented to us by the major platforms.