Literature Review

An analysis into discourse surrounding online musical communities and the politics at play

Developments in technology and global communication amongst the seemingly impenetrable nature of international capitalism over the last Century has offered contemporary musicians…

ISP Blogpost — Journal #2

This week’s journal will be an attempt at narrowing my conceptual scope towards my final research project. After last week, I found that although the chapter’s from Music in Technoculture are helping me shape an understanding of musical communities and their relationship with…

It’s fleeting and I like that — Journal #10 ISP

For my final journal for this ISP I will be discussing ideas that have become prevalent in ongoing dialogues that I have had from members of the vaporwave community. So far, my inquisition has been gladly received. I have engaged in dialogues with…

ISP Blogpost — Journal 7&8 — Entering Vaporwave

In this week’s journal I will be discussing the different areas online that the Vaporwave community congregate in. This will be in an effort to be well acquainted to discuss the community as part of my upcoming research project. The community in…

ISP Blogpost — Journal #1

This blog is to be used for my weekly journals in my ethnographic research into online musical communities. I have chosen to use a blog to embed my work in the relevant world that I am discussing — that is, the internet and global media. In future weeks I plan to invite people and…

ISP Blogpost #9

For this weeks blogpost I will be talking about the blurring of semantic boundaries in online communities. This is in specific reference to ideas of categorization that affects our epistemological process. As I increasingly become involved in virtual fieldwork, I am finding more and more that…

ISP Blogpost Journal #5 — Commercial Connotations

ISP Blogpost — Journal #4

[Substitute the word ‘Mozart’ for the word ‘Internet’]

“ I submit that Mozart’s main topic is not, as Cohen believed, love. It is the metaphysical mystery of the existence of a human universe of pure sociality, the exploration of the manifold forms in which…

ISP Blogpost — Journal #3

In this week’s journal I will be discussing my thoughts towards internet communities of musicians and fans in response to Music in Technoculture and my perception of the field upon finishing the book. This will include much self-reflection of my epistemological understanding and…

ISP Blogpost Journal #6 — Signs and Irony

In this week’s journal I will be focussing on how meaning is conferred through musical production on the internet. I will be focussing particularly on semantics, and the use of irony and interpretation drawn from post-modernist theory. In his introductory…