MUAR 392 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Indie Rock, Campus Radio, Green Day
16 Aug 2016
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A variety of underground genres, based on different local scenes and supported by a loose network of fanzines, independent record labels, local scenes and supported by college radio stations and clubs in urban areas and college towns. Mainstream press, major record labels, commercial forces, corporate control, mainstream and taste/ trends . Breaking from tin pan alley, brill building etc. Another way to conceptualize or categorize musical styles, audiences and trends. Groups and communities that are focused around music. Independent record labels anything that is not the big 6: universal, sony, warner later it became the big 3 which control as much as 85% of all music created. Many of these genres get in with these independent labels motown, sun records . Success of the b-52s created a hotbed of music making activity in the early 1980s with a focus on alt-dance pop.
