DIY Music and the Politics of Social Media

by Ellis Jones

Book Overview

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?

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501359630
• ISBN13: 9781501359637
• Release Date: January 2021
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 184 Pages