Making Synthwave
How an Online Music Community Invented a Genre
Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN 978-1-03-273203-9
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Bibliografische Daten
Buch. Softcover
2025
74 s/w-Abbildungen, 18 s/w-Fotos, 56 s/w-Zeichnungen, 15 s/w-Tabelle.
In englischer Sprache
Umfang: 324 S.
Format (B x L): 15.6 x 23.4 cm
Gewicht: 453
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN: 978-1-03-273203-9
Produktbeschreibung
Taking an emic perspective that delivers a behind-the-scenes, access-all-areas telling of synthwave’s story from the very beginning to the mid 2020s, this ethnographic account offers a full history and development of the online synthwave community. Through an insightful longitudinal virtual ethnography by a composer, producer and performer, the book observes how artists, audiences, musicians, producers and performers have come together to negotiate the musical and cultural boundaries of 1980s ‘throwback’ style synthwave. The book makes visible tacit knowledge of the synthwave creative process, as well as providing rich and experiential subcultural detail that situates synthwave as an active community of practice which formulated its roots as a music genre exclusively online in the early 2000s.
This book is essential reading for music makers in a variety of genres and scholars of popular music, cultural theory and music production, as well as those interested in the nuances of music-making on the internet, creative processes with synthesizers, and the mechanics of genre theory and community music in the digital age.
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