Higher Music Technology: Indie Music Homework.
Indie music was the sound of late 1970s and 1980s Britain’s youth.
It adopted the persona of many of the disaffected youth of the day who did not want to listen to the heavily-edited, heavily-affected popular music being churned out by the major record labels of the time; instead they wanted a drier, trashier sound which aligned with their culture at the time.
Indie music had a ‘do-it-yourself’ approach to music which became inspirational to youths, for whom a musical career suddenly seemed a possibility knowing that it was possible to ‘make it’ without being scouted and signed by one of the major record labels who were looking for already-polished performers of a different style of music. Key innovators of indie music included bands such as Jesus and Mary Chain, Tallulah Gosh, the Smiths, Morrissey, and Bright Eyes.
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Indeed, indie music was coined by many ‘indie-guitar music’, especially in its earlier days before it began to take more influence from the dance music rave scene towards the mid-80s. Indie also focussed a lot on vocals- normally male- and used backing vocals to an extent in some