"Every Home Is Wired":
3 -- The Progressive Rock Community on the Net
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I can imagine the moment
Breaking out through the silence
All the things that we both might say
And the heart it will not be denied
'Til we're both on the same damn side
All the barriers blown away
-- Peter Gabriel, "Come Talk to Me"
Progressive Rock Subculture's Use of the Net
On the basis of the preceding discussions of music subcultures' and particularly the Progressive Rock subculture's potential uses of the Internet, it is now possible to analyse the actual forms the Prog subculture's utilisation of the Net takes. Of the various Prog-related newsgroups, Web sites and other resources that can easily be found on the Net, two newsgroups will be studied in especial detail here, since newsgroups constitute the Internet's most obvious, direct, and central forum for community formation, integration, and maintenance through communication. These are rec.music.progressive (frequently referred to as 'r.m.p'), the central Prog discussion group, and alt.music.yes ('a.m.y'), a typical example of a newsgroup focussing particularly on one (Progressive) artist or band -- here, the canonical band Yes.1 These newsgroups will also be contrasted with email mailing-lists on similar topics, like Gibraltar (on especially obscure Prog), Elephant Talk ('ET', on King Crimson and related artists), and Notes from the Edge ('NftE', on Yes). Prog-related Web sites, finally, will also be analysed (see Appendix B.2 for addresses of these resources). Bit 1

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