Sounds of the Underground: A Cultural, Political and Aesthetic Mapping of Underground and Fringe Music

by Stephen Graham

Book Overview

In basements, dingy backrooms, warehouses, and other neglected places around the world music is being made that doesn't fit neatly into popular or classical categories and genres, whose often extreme sounds and tiny concerts hover on the fringes of these commercial and cultural mainstreams.
The term "underground music" as it's being used here connects various forms of music-making that exist outside or on the fringes of mainstream institutions...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0472119753
• ISBN13: 9780472119752
• Release Date: April 2016
• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.1"