DIY and Popular Music: Mapping an Ambivalent Relationship across Three Historical Case Studies

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Existing scholarship considering the relationship between “DIY” music and popular music has tended to focus on how and why the former differs from the latter. This paper generates new insights into the specific character of DIY music by inverting that focus, asking instead, why is DIY quite so similar to popular music? I stress the under-acknowledged similarities between the “core units” of popular music culture and DIY music in order to theorise their relationship as fundamentally ambivalent. I then apply this theoretical framework across three historical case studies – UK post-punk, US post-hardcore indie, and riot grrrl.

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Item Type:	Article
Authors/Creators:	Jones, E https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2557-9544
Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information:	© 2019 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an author produced version of an article published in Popular Music and Society. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy.
Keywords:	Authenticity; commodification; cultural resistance; DIY music; hardcore punk; music industries; post-punk; riot grrrl
Dates:	Accepted: 19 September 2019 Published (online): 27 September 2019 Published: 2021
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:	09 Nov 2021 15:51
Last Modified:	09 Apr 2025 13:57
Status:	Published
Publisher:	Routledge
Identification Number:	10.1080/03007766.2019.1671112
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID):	oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:180145

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