• Acknowledgments
• Introduction • Beginnings • Theoretical Frame: From Observation to Communication • Active Bodies • The Audience and Subjectivity • Music as Activity • Subjectivity in Action • Turn On the Bright Lights6 • Methodology • From Plus One to A&R • Your Itinerary • Conclusion • What Is “Indie”? • Indie . . . What’s at Stake?
• Indie as a Mode of Distribution: An Industrial Definition • Indie as a Genre
• Indie as an Ethos • Indie as Pathetic
• Indie as a Mode of Aesthetic Judgement • The Mainstream Is a Centralized Hierarchy
• Dance Is Not the Way the
• Future Is Meant to Feel • Indie: What Is It? • The Zones of Participation • The Event
• Zone One
• The Pit
• The Front
• Zone One • Spectatorship: The Initiates
• The Psychosomatics of Zone One • Zone Two • The Mode of Comportment of Zone Two • Comportment Features That Vary over Space • Gigs as Social Life • The Process of Change from Zone One to Zone Two
• The Heterogeneous Audience • A Move toward the Exit • Conclusion • Zone Three and the Music Industry • The Activities of Zone Three • The Liggers
• The Guest List
• Routine 1: Example of Professional Strategy • Routine 2: Example of Personable Strategy
• Routine 3: Code Switch from Professional to Personable • Passes
• Privileged Spectatorship • Conclusion
• The Participant Structure and the Metaphysics of Spectatorship • Proximity, Affiliation, and Consensus Building
• Verticality and Asymmetry
• Contesting Spectorial Positions: Closeness and Distance
• Age • The Metaphysics of Participation
• African Expression in a Protestant World • The Nature of the • Moral Threat
• A Ritual of Transformation • Conclusion • Performance, Authenticity, and Emotion • Indie’s Version of Authenticity • Indie’s Conventions of Being in Performance • Emotion and the Decay of Emotion • Sex and the Ritual Practitioners • Gendered Spectatorship • The Groupie as Sexual Predator • Indie Versus Mainstream: Groupie Troublesomeness
• Offstage Behavior Mirrors Onstage Spectacle • Come Together
• Sing for the Moment • The Tricksters
• Indie Coyotes and Foxes • Afterword: My Music Is Your Dirt • Appendix 1. NME’s Top 100 Albums of All Time • Appendix 2. NME’s Top 50 Albums of the 1980s • Appendix 3. Select Magazine Survey, 1994 • Notes • References
• Index