Limits of sharing and materialization of support: Indonesian Net Label Union

The end of the 2000s saw the robust development of net labels as an internet-based distribution platform for musicians to share their music for free. The development of the Indonesian Net Label Union represents a self-organizing act to indicate the rise of a new breed of indie music generation. Shar...

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Published inInter-Asia cultural studies Vol. 19; no. 1; pp. 87 - 102
Main Author Juliastuti, Nuraini
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Abingdon Routledge 02.01.2018
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Subjects
21st century
commons
Distribution
File sharing
gotong royong
Infrastructure
Internet
Meaning
music culture
Music industry
Musicians
Net label
Piracy
Record labels
sharing
Sustainability
Indonesia
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Summary:The end of the 2000s saw the robust development of net labels as an internet-based distribution platform for musicians to share their music for free. The development of the Indonesian Net Label Union represents a self-organizing act to indicate the rise of a new breed of indie music generation. Sharing is employed as a uniting concept and envisioned to be a collective project to achieve a collective sustainability. It prompts direct questions of the layered support for net label. In this article, I interrogate the embodiment (and the disembodiment) of sharing as well as the meaning of sustainability. In doing so, I examine the interlinking of sharing with piracy, materialization of support from the fans' loyalties and friendship, which forms the alternative infrastructure of the net label organization.
ISSN:1464-9373
1469-8447
DOI:10.1080/14649373.2018.1422343