DIY Style - Fashion, Music and Global Digital Cultures

Armed with cheap digital technologies and a fiercely independent spirit, millions of young people from around the world have taken cultural production into their own hands, crafting their own clothing lines, launching their own record labels, and forging a vast, collaborative network of impassioned amateurs more interested in making than consuming. tells the story of this international do-it-yourself (DIY) movement through a major case study of one of its biggest, but least known contingents: the "indie" music and fashion scene of the predominantly Muslim Southeast Asian island nation of Indonesia. Through rich ethnographic detail, in-depth historical analysis, and cutting-edge social theory, the book chronicles the rise of DIY culture in Indonesia, and also explores the phenomenon in Europe and the United States, painting an evocative portrait of vibrant communities who are not only making and distributing popular culture on their own terms, but working to tear down the barriers between production and consumption, third and first world, global and local. What emerges from the book is a cautiously optimistic view of the future of global capitalism - a creative, collectivist alternative built from the ground up.This exciting and original study is essential reading for students and scholars of anthropology, fashion, media studies, cultural studies and sociology.>

About the author

Brent Luvaas is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Drexel University, USA. He is the author of DIY Style (Berg, 2012) and the blogger behind www.urbanfieldnotes.com, a street style blog documenting fashion on the streets of Philadelphia.

Summary

Through rich ethnographic detail and cutting-edge theory, DIY Style tells the fascinating story of an international do-it-yourself (DIY) movement through a major case study of the "indie" music and fashion scene in Indonesia.

Product details

• Authors: Brent Luvaas, Brent Adam Luvaas, Luvaas Brent
• Assisted by: Joanne B. Eicher (Editor)
• Publisher: Berg Publishers Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.09.2012
• EAN: 9780857850393
• ISBN: 978-0-85785-039-3
• No. of pages: 208
• Series: Dress, Body, Culture (Hardcove; Dress, Body, Culture (Hardcove; Dress, Body, Culture
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; Music, Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture, Cultural Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, DESIGN / Fashion & Accessories, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Fashion & society, Material Culture, Social and cultural anthropology