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Sounds of the Underground: A Cultural, Political and Aesthetic Mapping of Underground and Fringe Music

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In basements, dingy backrooms, warehouses, and other neglected places around the world music is being made that doesn't fit neatly into popular or classical categories and genres, whose often extreme sounds and tiny concerts hover on the fringes of these commercial and cultural mainstreams. The term “underground music” as it’s being used here connects various forms of music-making that exist outside or on the fringes of mainstream institutions and culture, such as noise, free improvisation, and extreme metal. This is music that makes little money, that’s noisy and exploratory in sound and that’s largely independent from both the market and from traditional high art institutions. In this book, by outlining the historical background but focusing on the digital age, the underground and its fringes can be seen as based in radical anti-capitalist politics or radical aesthetics while also being tied to the political contexts and structures of late capitalism.

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780

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: ., 2016

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Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

9780472119752

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780

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Ethnomusicology

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Statement of Responsibility

Stephen Graham

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Firli

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https://openresearchlibrary.org/content/adbe6aaa-ac58-48bb-9f15-1472cee8e5ae/details

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