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

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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 profound shifts in music dissemination and production 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 intertwined with digitalization, asking what it means now to say one is independent. It shows how brands in Indonesia and Brazil sponsor bands, media and festivals; how artists sustain autonomy in the streaming environment; and how labels around the world constitute themselves as cultural associations, diaspora networks, and through offline-social relations. The volume includes birds-eye historical perspectives by important global south scholars seldom read in English.

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Pedro Belchior Nunes is an integrated researcher at the Institute of Ethnomusicology at the Faculty of Human and Social Sciences, New University of Lisbon, Portugal. Pedro Roxo is Assistant Professor on graduate and postgraduate courses focusing on Ethnomusicology, Jazz, and Popular Music Studies and an integrated researcher at the Institute of Ethnomusicology at the Faculty of Human and Social Sciences, New University of Lisbon, Portugal. He is co-editor of Current Issues in Music Research: Copyright, Power and Transnational Music Processes (2012). Shannon Garland is Lecturer in the Department of Global Arts, Media and Writing Studies at the University of California, Merced, USA. She conducts ethnographic research on the production of popular music from an ethnographic, transnational perspective, focusing on indie music across the US and Latin America.