Robin James
02-20-2020
It may seem strange for music scenes to spawn labor theories, but musicians, who were among the first gig workers, have long had to deal with challenges that neoliberalism has extended to more of the workforce. DIY and indie scenes were late 20th century responses to corporate control, but they have long since been co-opted and redeployed as spurs for general productivity. (Do what you love!) "Interdependence," an update of the indie ethos that has emerged from the underground electronic music scene, hopes to offer an alternative to individualistic, human-capital-centric attitudes toward art making, but it remains hung up on the same problems of ideas and inspiration belong to reduced to property relations.