"Every Home Is Wired":
4 -- Towards a Strategic Progressive Rock Community
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So many years we suffered here
Our country racked with Spanish wars
Now comes a chance to find ourselves
And quiet reigns behind our doors
We think about posterity again
-- King Crimson, "The Night Watch"
Acquiring a Place of One's Own
In the preceding pages, Mitra speaks of the "specific strategies" diasporic communities have used "to carve out areas in cyberspace where some are welcome and others are not" (175), and indeed we have seen how online norms and institutions have emerged from the Progressive Rock community on the Net. Thus, from a perspective more strictly in line with the theories of institutional strategies of control and oppositional tactics of appropriation put forward by de Certeau, the question arises how institutionalised Prog itself has become with the help of its use of the Internet -- that is, how much the (cyber-) spaces it has carved out for itself are indeed its own, to control strategically instead of having to mount tactical 'guerilla attacks' on the general music marketplace and its associated communication spaces. It is to this, then, that the discussion must now finally turn. Bit 1

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