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2. Instruments in Indie Folk Music . The sound of indie folk is defined by the instruments that give it its warm, acoustic quality. While electronic and modern production techniques may be used in other indie subgenres, indie folk stays true to acoustic roots. Here’s a breakdown of some of the most common instruments in indie folk music:
Fonarow writes that indie music has an ethos of independence but a pathos of not belonging. ,is creates a discrepancy between positive and negative attitudes, which is detrimental to authentic self-expression. As a result, Fonarow argues, authenticity in indie music is unsustainable. I argue that indie-folk music sets o- from
- Aestheticizing The Commonplace: Indie-Folk as High Art and Popular Culture
- Indie-Folk as A Marker of ‘Quality’ Taste
- Turning Need Into A Virtue: Distancing from Snobbism and Traditionalism
If indie is defined as music that is stripped bare to its purist form, then indie-folkcould be seen as an even more radical version of indie music. Both audience members and musicians generally define the genre as “real” and “authentic,” and support this classification with terms such as “unpolished,” “without glamor,” and “no nonsense” – or, more ...
A recurring theme in the discourse of musicians and audience members belonging to the second sub-group referred to above is the relationship between experimental indie-folk and what respondents themselves refer to as “postmodernism.” Analysis indicates that respondents associate “postmodernism” with concepts such as “deconstruction,” “contingency,”...
Zooming in on the politics of boundary drawing, analysis shows that, next to drawing boundaries around mainstream pop and electronic dance and techno music, both musicians and audience members erect symbolic fences between ‘authentic’ indie-folk (and associated indie genres) on the one hand, and genres that are either associated with traditionalism...
- Niels van Poecke
- vanpoecke@eshcc.eur.nl
- 2018
Specifically, the paper aims to: 1. determine the meanings, ideas, or actions the selected Filipino indie songs convey to the listeners; 2. construe the themes of the selected indie songs based on the semantic meanings derived from the lyrics; and 3. identify the semantic techniques used by the artists to purposively make their music (un) ambiguous in meaning.
- alejandro bernardo
Oct 1, 2018 · This contrast with the field of indie folk music is striking; recent research found that highly educated (young) adults define authenticity in terms of innovation within genres (Van Poecke, 2017 ...
Timbre is the primary vehicle by which indie music is produced and heard as different from its contemporaneous mainstream. Timbral choices intended as different from stereotypes of mainstream sound connect with discourses of differentiation on cultural, political, economic, and/or generic planes. I demonstrate this claim through three 1 of 18 ...
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Mar 30, 2022 · Indie music is primarily characterized by the artist's independent production of music. Specifically, indie folk music focuses on themes like romanticizing love, wanderlust, melancholy, and introspection. Various artists and bands made independent folk music, and while its popularity might have peaked in the mid-2010s, most of the creatives ...
