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posted by Cory Messenger @ 4:18 PM
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MSTU2000/7010 Music Subcultures and the Media
music fan cultures past and present and future
music fan cultures past and present and future
2 Comments:
Nice try. I replied to your email last Wednesday (at 6.19pm, to be precise).
It went a little something like this:
Shan,
I don't think it would be too difficult to work the post-punk
angle into something. Rather than focusing on Manchester,
why not a more generalised look at UK post-punk?
As punk was such a huge cultural phenomenon,
the 'fall-out' after the break up of the Sex Pistols
is arguably equally as significant and interesting.
Joy Division, of course, but also The Fall, Gang of Four,
Magazine, Echo and the Bunnymen etc.
Also, I think it could give you a way to approach the elusive
'indie culture' in the second essay. Whereas both the Pistols
and the Clash quickly signed to major labels, the post-punk bands,
beginning with
the Buzzcocks, were the first to put out their own singles, start
their own labels, or sign to the first independent labels.
Thus you could argue that the post punk scene is the real beginning of
indie culture, and in the second essay focus more closely on an aspect
of indie culture
that you have thus already defined (perhaps you could tackle the
avant garde aspects of indie in essay 2).
The fans that you write about, then, don't necessarily
have to be a specific subculture, but rather an 'umbrella' culture of
indie
record buyers that encompasses all indie-based subcultures, from post-
punk
to ska to goth to grunge to lo-fi etc.
Let me know what you think.
And how about a week's extension to give yourself a chance (and
to give me a chance of not having to read a big pile of hurredly-
written crap).
Cory
Hey, Alex here (aka doof-doof; thanks Deb, Penny etc. :P)
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