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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:
Anika Gerfer Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Germany anika.gerfer@uni-muenster.de The Language of English Indie Music In the mid-20th century many British artists sang in an ‘American accent’ (Trudgill 1983; Simpson 1999), yet with the emergence of the music genre ‘indie’ a range of artists started singing in their local accents, indexing authenticity, locality and/or ...
- Anika Gerfer
In its most general description, folk music refers to the local songs of a particular culture or people. Another definition by Lloyd (1969) refers to folk music as the music of the lower classes. Rooting from folk music, indie folk took its name from its use of acoustic instruments prominent in folk songs.
- alejandro bernardo
- 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
Oct 1, 2018 · to as ‘indie-folk’, a more neutral term that covers current trends in the global fiel d of folk music the best. 6 Arguing that producers of contemporary folk music score high on atypicalit y ...
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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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
