Doing it for themselves: the practices of amateur musicians and DIY music networks in a digital age

Hoare, Michaela; Benford, Steve; Greenhalgh, Chris; Chamberlain, Alan

Abstract

A fast expanding network of DIY music communities in the UK see digital technologies transforming ways in which part-time amateur musicians are able to collabo- rate creatively and form alliances, producing unique per- formance techniques, experimenting with genre conven- tions and reaching out to an international audience. With a DIY approach, creative autonomy and control is re- tained and celebrated in shared non-commercial spaces run by the artists themselves. A rich ethnographic study seeks to explore these shared ideologies and practices.

Citation

Hoare, M., Benford, S., Greenhalgh, C., & Chamberlain, A. Doing it for themselves: the practices of amateur musicians and DIY music networks in a digital age. Presented at DMRN+9: Digital Music Research Network (EPSRC)

• Conference Name: DMRN+9: Digital Music Research Network (EPSRC)
• Publication Date: Dec 1, 2014
• Deposit Date: Dec 16, 2014
• Publicly Available Date: Dec 16, 2014
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Public URL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/738710
• Contract Date: Dec 16, 2014