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Vaporwave is dead, long live vaporwave!

Abstract:: Popular music subcultures have acknowledged, engaged with, or rejected digital platforms to varying degrees; their relationship to it is often made fraught, ambivalent and ironic by projections of the Internet as inauthentic or impersonal and their inheritance of Romantic-influenced countercultural aesthetics. The genre vaporwave offers a key example of this, especially given that it emerged and exists almost exclusively on digital platforms. Vaporwave addresses its own digital nature and historicity in sound and image, as recent scholarship on it has observed. Its life online represents not an abandonment of traditional formulations of the relationship between culture, technology and authenticity, but a new arena in which to negotiate them.

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Harper, A. (2019). Vaporwave is dead, long live vaporwave! . In N. Cook, M. M. Ingalls, & D. Trippett (Eds.), The Cambridge Companion to Music in Digital Culture (1st ed., pp. 119–123). Cambridge University Press.

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Harper, A. “Vaporwave Is Dead, Long Live Vaporwave! .” The Cambridge Companion to Music in Digital Culture, edited by N Cook et al., 1st ed., Cambridge University Press, 2019, pp. 119–23.

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Harper, A. 2019. “Vaporwave Is Dead, Long Live Vaporwave! .” In The Cambridge Companion to Music in Digital Culture, edited by N Cook, MM Ingalls, and D Trippett, 1st ed., 119–23. Cambridge Companions to Music. Cambridge University Press.
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Institution:: University of Oxford
Division:: HUMS
Department:: Music Faculty
Oxford college:: Christ Church
Role:: Author
ORCID:: 0009-0008-4837-135X

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Publisher:: Cambridge University Press
Host title:: The Cambridge Companion to Music in Digital Culture
Pages:: 119-123
Series:: Cambridge Companions to Music
Place of publication:: Cambridge
Publication date:: 2019-08-30
Edition:: 1
DOI:: 10.1017/9781316676639.010
EISBN:: 9781316676639
ISBN:: 9781107161788

Language:: English
Keywords:: indie music

subculture

vaporwave

counterculture

authenticity
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Pubs id:: 1493876
Local pid:: pubs:1493876
Deposit date:: 2023-07-19

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