Independence in 21st-Century Popular Music

List of Figures
Acknowledgments

Chapter 1: Putting Music Independence into Perspective: An Historical and Global Overview
By Pedro Belchior Nunes, Shannon Garland, and Pedro Roxo

Part I: Labels, Genres and Mediations
Chapter 2: Independent, Alternative, Autonomous: Brazilian Experiences with Recorded Music in the Digital Age
By Marcia Tosta Dias
Chapter 3: Clean Feed Jazz Label: âWrong but Strong.â âIndependentâ Music Production and the Continued Commercialization of Cds in the Global 21st Century
By Pedro Roxo
Chapter 4: From the Ghetto to the World: Batida, the Nexus Pr­ncipe Discos-Filho nico and the Legitimization of Afrodiasporic Music Practices From the Outskirts Of Lisbon
By Pedro Belchior Nunes and Ot¡vio Raposo
Chapter 5: Independence is Our Only Choice: Associations and Collectives as Micro-Independent Record Labels in Galicia (2010-2020)
By Cibr¡n Tenreiro Uzal

Part II: Government Funding, Self-Management and the Corporatization of Independence
Chapter 6: Rising Under DIY Entrepreneurship and âSubsidyismâ: Taiwanâs Indie Music in the 21st Century
By Miaoju Jian
Chapter 7: From Crisis to Reinvention: Independent Music in Argentina Post-2001
By Victoria Irisarri and Ornela Boix
Chapter 8: Funk De S£o Paulo: An Independent Music Production Circuit on the Outskirts of a Brazilian Metropolis
By Eduardo Vicente and Leonardo De Marchi
Chapter 9: Independent of a Wage: Volunteering to Industrialize Indie for Sofar Sounds
By Shannon Garland

Part III: Political Regimes, Independent Ethos & Forms of Music Organization
Chapter 10: Juvenile Pleasures, Embodied Fights: The Pokem³n Scene and the Early Reggaet³n Industries in Chile, 2004-2010
By Ana Mar­a D­az Pinto
Chapter 11: From College Campus to Superbad!â"A Trajectory of an Indie Movement in Indonesia
By Rizky Sasono
Chapter 12: Sneaking Across the Digital Divide: Usb Sticks and the Infrastructure of Independent Cuban Music
By Mike Levine
Afterword: Capitalism and Its Discontented
by Timothy D. Taylor
List of Contributors