"Every Home Is Wired":
1 -- The Net in Relation to Music Subcultures
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What it is, is this
Is what it is
You and I exist
Therefore we are becoming
Here we are in this precisely now
-- Bruford, "Adios a la Pasada (Goodbye to the Past)"
Why Study Music Subcultures on the Net?
In the course of the continuing development of the Internet as a major new medium across the world (but particularly in the Western societies), music-related communication has increasingly come to supply an important portion of the total amount of information transmitted over the Net. Today, there are multitudes of well-frequented newsgroups catering for musical tastes from the very broad (rec.music.misc) to the very specific (alt.fan.leningrad.cowboys), email-distributed mailing-lists for even more specialised topics, and a plethora of Web sites created by fan and industry organisations. There are also innumerable Internet Relay Chat channels for direct, real-time discussions between fans and, occasionally, for organised chats with the musicians, and more and more new institutions like Internet radio stations, making use of the Net's improving bandwidth and upcoming technologies to deliver live and prerecorded music directly to the end consumer. 1 Bit 1

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