Jones, E orcid.org/0000-0002-2557-9544 (2021) DIY Music and the Politics of Social Media. Bloomsbury Publishing , New York, NY, USA ISBN 9781501359637
Abstract
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."
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Item Type: | Book |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © Ellis Jones, 2021. Reproduced in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures (Leeds) > School of Music (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 22 Nov 2021 10:51 |
Last Modified: | 07 Dec 2021 14:47 |
Published Version: | https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/diy-music-and-the-po... |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:180142 |