Between Two Monsters: Popular Music, Visual Media, and the Rise of Global Indie in 21st Century Uruguay
This dissertation chronicles the rise of "indie" music and sensibilities among the first generation of young artists to come of age alongside digital media in Montevideo since 2002. Combining an ethnographically and historically detailed case study with interdisciplinary approaches to culture and political economy, I analyze the practices and discourses through which these artists position themselves between the state and the market, and explore how popular music and the visual culture that surrounds it harness social meaning in the context of accelerating global mediation
Thesis, Dissertation, English, 2012