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Examines the largely unexplored terrain of underground music - exploratory forms of music-making, such as noise, free improvisation, and extreme metal, that exist outside or on the fringes of mainstream culture, generally independent from both the market and from traditional high-art institutions.

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There are no sustained considerations of the underground currently in academic literature. There are many discussions of noise, of exchanges between pop and art spheres, and of course of popular music, but Stephen Graham provides a sorely needed contribution in the form of a study that unites all of these different strands intelligibly. I can think of few other scholars who would be able to speak with the confidence and authority that he commands.” — Joanna Demers, University of Southern California

Sounds of the Underground

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      Publisher: LUP - University of Michigan Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 4/1/2016 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780472119752, 978-0472119752
      ISBN10: 0472119753
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      Book Synopsis
      Examines the largely unexplored terrain of underground music - exploratory forms of music-making, such as noise, free improvisation, and extreme metal, that exist outside or on the fringes of mainstream culture, generally independent from both the market and from traditional high-art institutions.

      Trade Review
      There are no sustained considerations of the underground currently in academic literature. There are many discussions of noise, of exchanges between pop and art spheres, and of course of popular music, but Stephen Graham provides a sorely needed contribution in the form of a study that unites all of these different strands intelligibly. I can think of few other scholars who would be able to speak with the confidence and authority that he commands.” — Joanna Demers, University of Southern California

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