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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 ...
Jul 12, 2017 · This article examines the social construction of indie-folk as a genre, defined not primarily as an aesthetic category but as a tool and resource of social differentiation. Drawing from 48 in-depth interviews with musicians, gatekeepers, and audience members, the discourse of indie-folk is analyzed, focusing on how Dutch community members draw social and symbolic boundaries. Analysis shows ...
- Niels van Poecke
- vanpoecke@eshcc.eur.nl
- 2018
Indie folk is a subgenre of folk music that emerged in the early 2000s, combining the acoustic, singer-songwriter sensibilities of folk with the independent, experimental approach of indie music. The result is a style that feels both familiar and fresh, rooted in folk traditions but not afraid to push boundaries.
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 ...
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
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 ...
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Aug 7, 2017 · This article examines the role of “independent” folk music (indie-folk) in personal identity formation. It builds upon Paul Ricoeur’s theory of narrative identity, which argues (i) that it ...
