Year: 2022
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: This article stems from ethnographic fieldwork I carried out in 2019 on the virtual platforms where vaporwave, an Internet countercultural phenomenon between a musical genre and a meme, is developed. In this text I show how copyright laws and technologies operating in the context of vaporwave's creation traverse and affect its creative forms and processes. Based on this case study of vernacular Internet creativity, I encourage an approach to digital countercultural or folkloric movements by putting into dialogue their symbolic dimension and the sociological, technological and legal bases on which they develop.
Author: Soriano Gómez, Ezequiel
Language: English
Topic: Music History and Culture
Subfield: Music
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W4321511744