Publications
Book | Independence in 21st Century Popular Music: Cases from Beyond Anglo-America
Can music be made “independently” in the 21st century? INET-md researchers, Pedro Belchior Nunes and Pedro Roxo, are co-editors, with Shannon Garland (University of Pittsburgh) of a new book on independent music, titled Independence in 21st-Century Popular Music: Cases from Beyond Anglo-America, now made available by Bloomsbury Publishing.
Besides de opening chapter, "Putting Music Independence into Perspective: An Historical and Global Overview", co-authored by the three editors, Pedro Nunes and Pedro Roxo contribute with two more chapters:
Pedro Roxo | "Clean Feed Jazz Label: “Wrong but Strong.” “Independent” Music Production and the Continued Commercialization of Cds in the Global 21st Century"
Pedro Nunes & Otávio Raposo | "From the Ghetto to the World: Batida, the Nexus Príncipe Discos-Filho Único and the Legitimization of Afrodiasporic Music Practices From the Outskirts Of Lisbon"
Book synopsis:
More than a generation of musicians, music workers, and music companies have now been operating in the context of the profound shifts in music production and dissemination in the “digital era.” Scholarly focus on musical independence has often been centered on genres, like punk and indie, rooted in the US and UK. This volume, focused outside the Euro-American context, shows the variety of ways musicians, music workers and businesses manage the economic, media and cultural shifts propelled by digitalization, asking what it means now to say one is “independent.” It brings together scholars from around the globe who are researching forms of music production, circulation, consumption and finance that blur the boundaries between the dominant corporate players and “independent” cultural production. With chapters detailing popular music in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Cuba, Indonesia, Portugal, Spain and Taiwan, independence is shown to be a concept and practice simultaneously nebulous, contradictory, and practical.
This work is funded by Portuguese national funds through FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P., within the project UIDP/00472/2020 - Instituto de Etnomusicologia - Centro de Estudos em Música e Dança (INET-md) - Programmatic funding.
