Thesis (M.M.) Florida State University, 2006. / Advisor: Charles E. Brewer, Florida State University, College of Music. Title and description from dissertation home page (viewed 2006). Document formatted into pages; contains 69 pages. Includes biographical sketch. Includes bibliographical references.

Twenty-five years of independent, underground, or punk rock music-making in St. John's, Newfoundland, have been defined by geographic isolation. In tracing a historical record of the small city's punk/indie scene, this project seeks to evaluate recent academic discussion surrounding the role of collectivity in artistic 'independence' and examine the impact of prevailing international aesthetics and changing communication technologies on local practice. The self-containment and self-sufficiency of the St. John's music community, largely the product of the city's isolated position on the extreme eastern tip of a large island off the east coast of North America, provide a unique backdrop against which to foreground a discussion of the distance between indie/punk rhetoric and reality. I contend that 'scene' in popular and academic use refers to the casual aggregation occasioned by similar interest and shared location, while 'community' hints at effort, co-operation and productive support.

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The success of independent rock music ("indie rock"), once a marginalized sub-genre of the rock idiom and now a globally recognized cultural force, has impacted the urban landscape of Omaha, Nebraska via the mixed-use urban redevelopment project, "Slowdown" - a result of cultural production by the city's successful indie rock business entities. While geographic research has previously analyzed urban redevelopment initiated by fine artists, the event of indie rock music being a catalyst for urban redevelopment has never been considered in a geographic scope. By examining the topics of affordable technological tools, Omaha's reduced cost-of-living, and cooperative efforts by city leaders, insight into how an indie rock "scene" can become a successful urban redevelopment catalyst is gained.

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The Eighties were a time in Western popular music that seemed to exist only by virtue of it coming after something else---namely, the 1960s counterculture and the punk rock of the 1970s. Inheriting both the failure of permanent cultural revolution and the intense cynicism that is punk's strongest legacy, youth cultures in the 1980s found it increasingly difficult to live in the present. This thesis labels this historical dilemma postmodern. It will show how SPIN magazine attempted to move past this dilemma in order to assert a unique identity for 1980s popular music and youth cultures. In particular, John Leland, a columnist for SPIN, appropriated a pop aesthetic as an identity marker and, in the process, questioned the supposed ineffectiveness of pop music for a political postmodernism. An analysis of Leland's writing uncovers what accounts of this era tend to ignore: the social function of postmodernism.

Submitted by Erika Demachki (erikademachki@gmail.com) on 2017-03-09T18:49:03Z No. of bitstreams: 2 Dissertação - Pedro Henrique Bernardi Rocha - 2016.pdf: 7209305 bytes, checksum: 9407d1a5687a8e8fc1802e23fa47a0d6 (MD5) license_rdf: 0 bytes, checksum: d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Luciana Ferreira (lucgeral@gmail.com) on 2017-03-10T10:58:31Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 2 Dissertação - Pedro Henrique Bernardi Rocha - 2016.pdf: 7209305 bytes, checksum: 9407d1a5687a8e8fc1802e23fa47a0d6 (MD5) license_rdf: 0 bytes, checksum: d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-03-10T10:58:31Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 Dissertação - Pedro Henrique Bernardi Rocha - 2016.pdf: 7209305 bytes, checksum: 9407d1a5687a8e8fc1802e23fa47a0d6 (MD5) license_rdf: 0 bytes, checksum: d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-06-10 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES / This work had as its objective the investigation of processes of style and performance in the most current alternative rock from Goiânia (the last five years) from a case study related to the music of three selected bands from the city, considering their aesthetic choices, artistic positioning and, after all, their practices, aiming for processes of identity implicated with this musical genre in the city. The methodological trajectory which made possible to reach the predicted goal, seeking methods and theories that privileged the symbolic, which gives support to the representational, consisted of analysis and interpretation of music scores, transcriptions and musical performances, always related to analysis and interpretation also from CDs, DVDs, the observation of photographies and live shows, lyrics, data collected in the study of the social, historical and cultural scenarios in focus and through oral reports collected in interviews granted by the social actors implicated with the object of study. Through those processes it was possible to verify the evidence of an alternative rock from Goiânia, more specifically related to the stoner rock variation, showing voluminous sound density, very close stylistically to American/English rock, ideologically distanced form national variations in its relation with the cultural industry and with the cultivation of elements from the national and local culture. By interacting with a traditional scenario from Goiânia, implicated as well with representational disputes between tradition and modernity, the alternative rock from the city has showed meaningful traces of a positioning of resistance before the hegemony of representations related to country music, to the relation of this music with residues from the past oligarchical culture from Goiás and with the most radical mechanisms of the cultural industry. It has revealed processes of identity, therefore, one of the vectors of an identity of Goiânia in constant construction. / Este trabalho teve como objetivo investigar os processos estilísticos e performáticos do rock alternativo de Goiânia na atualidade (últimos cinco anos), a partir do estudo de caso relacionado à música de três bandas goianienses selecionadas, considerando suas escolhas estéticas, posicionamentos artísticos e, afinal, suas práticas, visando processos identitários implicados com esse gênero musical na cidade. A trajetória metodológica que possibilitou atingir o objetivo previsto, buscando métodos e teorias que privilegiaram o simbólico que dá suporte ao representacional, se consistiu em análise e interpretação de partituras, transcrições e performances musicais, sempre relacionadas à análise e interpretação realizadas também a partir de Cds, DVDs, observação de fotografias e de apresentações ao vivo, letras de canções, dados colhidos no estudo dos cenários sócio-histórico e culturais em questão e através dos relatos de entrevistas concedidas pelos atores sociais implicados com o objeto de estudo. Através desses processos, foi possível constatar a evidência de um rock alternativo goianiense, mais especificamente ligado à vertente do stoner rock, exibindo densidade sonora volumosa, muito próximo estilisticamente do rock americano/inglês, distanciado ideologicamente de vertentes nacionais em sua relação com a indústria cultural e com o cultivo de elementos da cultura nacional e regional. Ao interagir com um cenário tradicional goianiense implicado também com a luta de representações entre tradição e modernidade, o rock alternativo da cidade mostrou traços significativos de um posicionamento de resistência perante a hegemonia das representações ligadas à musica sertaneja, à relação dessa musica com resíduos da cultura das oligarquias do passado goiano e com os mecanismos mais radicais da indústria cultural. Revelou processos identitários, portanto, um dos vetores de uma identidade goianiense sempre em construção.

Portland has a rich, active, and fluid music culture which is constantly being (re)created and (re)defined by a loose network of local musicians who write, record, produce, promote, distribute, and perform their music locally (and sometimes regionally, nationally, and internationally) and local residents, or audiences, who engage in local musical practices. Independent ("indie") local music making in Portland, which is embedded in DIY (do it yourself) values, creates alternative cultural places and landscapes in the city and is one medium through which some people represent themselves in the community. These residents not only perform, consume, promote, and distribute local music, they also (re)create places to host musical expressions. They have built alternative and democratic cultural landscapes, or culturescapes, in the city. Involved Portlanders strive to make live music performances accessible and affordable to all people, demonstrating through musical practices that the city is a shared space and represents a diversity of people, thoughts, values, and cultural preferences. Using theoretical tools from critical research about the economic, spatial, and social role of cultures in cities, particularly music, and ethnographic research of the Portland music scene, including participant observations and in-depth interviews with Portland musicians and other involved residents, this research takes a critical approach to examining ways in which manifestations of independent music are democratic cultural experiences that influence the city's cultural identity and are a medium through which a loosely defined group of Portlanders represent their cultural values and right to the city. In particular, it focuses on how local musical practices, especially live performances, (re)create alternative spaces within the city for musical expressions and influence the city's cultural landscapes, as well as differences between DIY independent music in Portland and its commodified forms and musicians and products produced by global music industry.

Submitted by admin tede (tede@pucgoias.edu.br) on 2017-06-01T14:03:52Z No. of bitstreams: 1 EMERSON MAGALHÃES.pdf: 4503685 bytes, checksum: f660dc448e46fbaa62e032dbcea91699 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-06-01T14:03:52Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 EMERSON MAGALHÃES.pdf: 4503685 bytes, checksum: f660dc448e46fbaa62e032dbcea91699 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-03-10 / The present work has the objective of analyzing the construction of the cultural and musical scene of alternative rock from Goiás. From the notion of field, abstracted from the work of Pierre Bourdieu (2012), presents the rock from its roots and its emergence in the United States as well as its main agents and musicians. There is also the Brazilian rock of the 80's, influenced by the majors, followed by the opposition of the punk movement, in parallel with the São Paulo working-class movement, as a periphery movement and groups forgotten by the great musical media. Through the motto of it yourself, punks countered this idea of dominance by major record companies, provoking a conflict between the dominant, represented by the majors, and the dominated, represented by the underground punk movement. This movement reverberates in Goiás and the youth of Goiás promote, through festivals and fanzines, a local rock forgotten of the call Axis Rio-São Paulo and against the attempt to create a sertaneja musical identity for the goianos. In this process, it creates a musical and cultural scene with its own identity. The work heard entrepreneurs, participants of bands in interviews and had as theoretical contributions of Napolitano (2005), Benevides (2010), (2013), Bourdieu (1996), (2007), (2012), Alexandre (2002), Dapieve (1996), O‟Hara (2005), Friedlander (2002), Dias(2000), Brandini (2004), Kossa (2005). / O presente trabalho tem como objetivo a análise da construção da cena cultural e musical do rock alternativo goiano. A partir da noção de campo, abstraída da obra de Pierre Bourdieu (2012), apresenta-se o rock desde suas raízes e o seu o seu surgimento nos Estados Unidos assim como seus principais agentes e músicos. Apresenta-se também o rock brasileiro dos anos 80, influenciado pelas grandes gravadoras (majors), seguido da contraposição do movimento punk, paralelamente ao movimento operário de São Paulo, como um movimento de periferia e de grupos esquecidos pela grande mídia musical. Através do lema do it yourself (faça você mesmo) os punks se contrapuseram a essa ideia de domínio das grandes gravadoras, provocando um conflito entre os dominantes, representado pelas majors, e os dominados, representados pelo movimento underground punk. Esse movimento reverbera em Goiás e a juventude goiana promove, através de festivais e fanzines, um rock local esquecido do chamado Eixo Rio-São Paulo e contra a tentativa de se criar uma identidade musical sertaneja para os goianos. Nesse processo, cria uma cena musical e cultural com identidade própria. O trabalho ouviu empresários, participantes de bandas em entrevistas e teve como aportes teóricos Napolitano (2005), Benevides (2010), (2013), Bourdieu (1996), (2007), (2012), Alexandre (2002), Dapieve (1996), O‟Hara (2005), Friedlander (2002), Dias(2000), Brandini (2004), Kossa (2005).

This study looks at how place and local identity of Portland are described within music lyrics from Portland, Oregon popular indie-rock artists. Employing a constant comparative analysis on a set of 1,201 songs from 21 different popular Portland indie-rock artists, the themes of landscapes and climate were found to represent place, and themes of lifestyles and attitudes represented local identity. Reviewing the uncovered themes showed a strong connection between representations of place and local identity within lyrics and common stereotypes or understandings of the city of Portland and its indie-rock music scene. The results of this study illustrate how place and local identity are communicated through popular but locally-tied music lyrics and how these lyrics may describe cities.