British Indie In The 1980s
Cutie and the Birth of Indie Pop
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Pete Dale is Senior Lecturer in Music Education at University of York. He is author of many books including Engaging Students with Music Education: DJ Decks, Urban Music and Child-Centred Learning (Routledge 2017) and Anyone Can Do It: Empowerment, Tradition and the Punk Underground (Ashgate, 2012). He ran the indie label Slampt and played in many indie bands.
This book is a study of the emergence of indie as a genre term in the UK in the 1980s. It places a special focus on the ‘cutie’ sub-genre of indie, exemplified by groups such as the Pastels and Talulah Gosh. The book also examines the significance of NME’s compilation tape C86 (issued in Spring 1986), exposing an antipathy to the independent sector among the tape’s compilers and revealing that the direct effect of the tape was that several of the independent sector’s up-and-coming groups moved on to major labels (many directly after the compilation was released, others such as the Wedding Present later in the decade). The chapters that make up the book alternate between a chronological survey of developments across the 1980s with a range of more particular topics of enquiry: genre, gender and sexuality, race, Britishness and more. The core argument is that the codification of indie as a genre was a crucial component in the effective weakening of the independent sector during the 1980s. Methodologically, the study is primarily based around archival research of the UK’s weekly music press and fanzines from the period, as well as some musicological analyses. These archives show that an antipathy towards ‘the indie ethic’ and the small-scale end of the independent sector was firmly held by key journalists such as Neil Taylor (one of the three compilers of NME’s influential C86 compilation). The book’s musicological analyses, meanwhile, clarify what can and can’t be said about the nature of indie as a genre in specifically musical terms. It is clear that indie is not characterised by invariable attributes but then, genres never are.
This book is a study of the emergence of indie as a genre term in the UK in the 1980s. It places a special focus on the ‘cutie’ sub-genre of indie, exemplified by groups such as the Pastels and Talulah Gosh. The book also examines the significance of NME’s compilation tape C86 (issued in Spring 1986), exposing an antipathy to the independent sector among the tape’s compilers and revealing that the direct effect of the tape was that several of the independent sector’s up-and-coming groups moved on to major labels (many directly after the compilation was released, others such as the Wedding Present later in the decade). The chapters that make up the book alternate between a chronological survey of developments across the 1980s with a range of more particular topics of enquiry: genre, gender and sexuality, race, Britishness and more. The core argument is that the codification of indie as a genre was a crucial component in the effective weakening of the independent sector during the 1980s. Methodologically, the study is primarily based around archival research of the UK’s weekly music press and fanzines from the period, as well as some musicological analyses. These archives show that an antipathy towards ‘the indie ethic’ and the small-scale end of the independent sector was firmly held by key journalists such as Neil Taylor (one of the three compilers of NME’s influential C86 compilation). The book’s musicological analyses, meanwhile, clarify what can and can’t be said about the nature of indie as a genre in specifically musical terms. It is clear that indie is not characterised by invariable attributes but then, genres never are.
Traces the rise of indie music in the UK in the 1980s Discusses the role of race, gender, and sexuality in the indie scene itself and the press coverage of the scene Focuses on the role the music industry and music press (especially the NME) had in shaping British Indie in the 1980s
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