genre research

1. Beckie Fullard

2. Top 10 music magazines.
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Rolling stone
Select
NME
Lime lizard
The wire
Smash hits
Kerrang
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‘Sup
Mojo

3. Indie folk
 A sub-genre which arose in the 1990’s when indie rock
was influenced by folk/country music.

4.  ‘Indie’ clothing such as: jeans, waistcoats, shirts.
 Close ups of the artists face are used to show facial
expression.
 Usually presented in everyday environments such as:
recording studios, nature, bedrooms.
 The music follows quite a strong narrative/story.
 Main focus is always on the main artist.

5.  Indie music is generally part performance based and
predictable as they give their target audience what they
expect and what they are used to seeing. A lot of indie
music is about live performances e.g: festivals and
acoustic sets and is very much about the music itself.
When there is a storyline as part of the music video
indie music videos can either stick very closely to the
lyrics of the song or digress into something far fetched
and random that has very little to do with the lyrics.

6. Instruments used..
 Acoustic guitar, double bass, piano, harmonium,
mandolin, drums, banjo, violin, electric guitar

7.  Indie folk has a very niche (small) audience. Yet as the
sub-genre has become more popular in the past
decade, the audience has grown with it.