Citation

Skelchy RP. J. Pop. Music Stud. 2017; 29(3).

Copyright

(Copyright © 2017, John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

10.1111/jpms.12230

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Abstract

Music genres shape our choices in consuming music. From shopping at record stores to downloading mp3's from internet sites, genres enable consumers to locate and select from artists with shared characteristics and commonalities. Genres also come with a series of boundaries, codes and expectations often constructed by communities of musicians and fans as well as the music industry and its mechanisms of marketing and distribution. As fixed as music genres appear to be, they are in practice quite fluid and dynamic. This is especially true for artists working outside of the industry structure--musicians responsible for creating music that is decidedly anti-genre. This article focuses on unsigned artists from San Francisco Bay Area Noise and experimental rock scenes as case studies to explore how musicians contest genre boundaries aesthetically and in social and physical space in order to create identities outside of established genre conventions. © 2017 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

Language: en