Jump to content

Indie cred: Difference between revisions

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Content deleted Content added
Redirected page to Selling out
 
Line 1: Line 1:
#redirect [[selling out]]
{{citations missing|date=January 2009}}

'''Indie cred''', a term similar to "street cred," describes the authenticity of an independent [[band (music)|band]] or artist. In music, credibility is an [[ideology|ideological]] concept and may involve notions of [[Universality (philosophy)|universality]], [[complexity]] and [[original]]ity (Green, 1999). Financial and artistic [[Wiktionary:autonomy|autonomy]] is probably the most vital for indie credibility, the loss of which is called [[selling out]].
==See also==
* [[Credibility]]
* [[Indie rock]]
* [[Indie music scenes]]
* [[Hipster (contemporary subculture)|Hipster]]
* [[Pitchfork Media]]
* [[Last.fm]]
* [[Greenwich Village]]
* [[Neutral Milk Hotel]]

==References==
* Green, Lucy (1999) "Ideology", ''Key Terms in Popular Music and Culture''. Malden, Massachusetts. ISBN 0-631-21263-9.
* [[Wendy Fonarow|Fonarow, Wendy]]. ''[[Empire of Dirt]]: The Aesthetics and Rituals of British Indie Music''. Wesleyan, 2006. ISBN 0-819-568-112

[[Category:Slang]]
[[Category:1990s slang]]
[[Category:2000s slang]]

{{music-stub}}

Latest revision as of 21:23, 15 March 2011

Redirect to: