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Grossberg, Lawrence Kirschner, Tony Louis 2015-09-28T16:04:44Z 2015-09-28T16:04:44Z 10000-01-01 2002 2002 This study examines the operational logic of the indie rock formation. Indie rock, a relatively autonomous sphere of rock culture, is defined as a cultural formation. Using a cultural studies approach I show how the operational logic (the complex articulation of forces that organize cultural formations) of indie rock produces class elitism in its participants. Chapter one introduces indie rock as a cultural formation and cultural studies as an interdisciplinary intellectual practice. Chapter two critiques interpretive models of academic popular music scholarship, arguing that a contextually-based, analytical method is more useful for cultural studies. Chapter three deals with theoretical and methodological concerns, promoting cosmopolitan ethnography as the best way to understand the material forces that structure the indie rock formation. Chapter four is a Foucauldian genealogy of indie rock that reconstructs the contingent set of contextual conditions that produce the indie rock formation. Chapter five details the operational logic of the indie rock formation, demonstrating how it produces class difference. Chapter six uses ethnographic data to understand the status of gender in the indie rock formation. Made available in DSpace on 2015-09-28T16:04:44Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 license.txt: 4848 bytes, checksum: 96035ab3f5e1c23cc7138a224ce498bd (MD5) 3044143.pdf: 10696618 bytes, checksum: bc78ff5a32863c01387651a0065e38b9 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2002 Embargo set by: Seth Robbins for item 88784 Lift date: Forever Reason: Restricted to the U of I community idenfinitely during batch ingest of legacy ETDs Restricted to the U of I community idenfinitely during batch ingest of legacy ETDs U of I Only 229 p. Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/2142/87503 (MiAaPQ)AAI3044143 eng Music Producing *Class: Indie Rock and Cultural Studies text Speech Communication Speech Communication University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Dissertation Ph.D.