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The leisure of grey spaces, urban play and the chromatic turn Open
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DIY House Shows and Music Venues in the US. Ethnographic Explorations of Place and Community. By David Verbuč. New York, Routledge, 2022, 282 pp. ISBN: 978-1-032-04917-5 Open
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‘There’s a lot of freedom you can have with that kind of thing’: vinyl and cassette split releases in the digital age Open
Releasing music on cassettes and 7-inch singles has been a part of DIYmusic scenes for a long time. As music production, distribution and consumption have been subjected to a substantial digital shift within the past two decades, one might…
Symbolic DIY environmentalism between sustainability statements and green pressure Open
This article argues that environmental sustainability statements do not constitute a one-dimensional service but encapsulate a reciprocal power relation between producers and consumers’ expectations for continuously improving sustainabilit…
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How does materiality ‘bite back’? Investigating cassette tapes in local, translocal and virtual music scenes Open
Despite its status as an analogue sound carrier, the cassette has shown remarkable resilience in the digital era. Drawing on qualitative data gathered in three significant markets for cassettes, Japan, Australia and the USA, during 2018 an…