Empire of Dirt : The Aesthetics and Rituals of British Indie Music

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fonarow, Wendy.

Series:

Music Culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Alternative rock music--History and criticism--Great Britain.

Alternative rock music.

Alternative rock music--Social aspects--Great Britain.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (337 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Middletown : Wesleyan University Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Inside the culture of an artistically influential music community

Contents:

Cover; Empire of Dirt; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Beginnings; Theoretical Frame: From Observation to Communication; Active Bodies; The Audience and Subjectivity; Music as Activity; Subjectivity in Action; Turn On the Bright Lights6; Methodology; From Plus One to A&R; Your Itinerary; Conclusion; 1. What Is "Indie"?; Indie . . . What's at Stake?; Indie as a Mode of Distribution: An Industrial Definition; Indie as a Genre; Indie as an Ethos; Indie as Pathetic; Indie as a Mode of Aesthetic Judgement; The Mainstream Is a Centralized Hierarchy

Dance Is Not the Way the Future Is Meant to Feel Indie: What Is It?; 2. The Zones of Participation; The Event; Zone One; The Pit; The Front; Zone One Spectatorship: The Initiates; The Psychosomatics of Zone One; Zone Two; The Mode of Comportment of Zone Two; Comportment Features That Vary over Space; Gigs as Social Life; The Process of Change from Zone One to Zone Two; The Heterogeneous Audience; A Move toward the Exit; Conclusion; 3. Zone Three and the Music Industry; The Activities of Zone Three; The Liggers; The Guest List; Routine 1: Example of Professional Strategy

Routine 2: Example of Personable Strategy Routine 3: Code Switch from Professional to Personable; Passes; Privileged Spectatorship; Conclusion; 4. The Participant Structure and the Metaphysics of Spectatorship; Proximity, Affiliation, and Consensus Building; Verticality and Asymmetry; Contesting Spectorial Positions: Closeness and Distance; Age; The Metaphysics of Participation; African Expression in a Protestant World; The Nature of the Moral Threat; A Ritual of Transformation; Conclusion; 5. Performance, Authenticity, and Emotion

Indie's Version of Authenticity / 188 Indie's Conventions of Being in Performance Emotion and the Decay of Emotion; 6. Sex and the Ritual Practitioners; Gendered Spectatorship; The Groupie as Sexual Predator; Indie Versus Mainstream: Groupie Troublesomeness; Offstage Behavior Mirrors Onstage Spectacle; Come Together; Sing for the Moment; The Tricksters; Indie Coyotes and Foxes; Afterword: My Music Is Your Dirt; Appendix 1. NME's Top 100 Albums of All Time; Appendix 2. NME's Top 50 Albums of the 1980's; Appendix 3. Select Magazine Survey, 1994; Notes; References; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

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ISBN:

9780819574435

0819574430

OCLC:

867050143