Music at the periphery under conditions of degraded hierarchy between the centre and the margins in the space of the internet

Abstract

This paper deals with the emergence of a new kind of music of the centre and music of the margins, by means of the deconstruction of the 'old', historically and professionally founded and economically-politically enabled establishment of a hierarchical relation between the centre and the margins in the world of music. This deconstruction is here interpreted as a phenomenon initiated by the actions of the music industry, and is an immediate result of the expansion of the Internet, its meta-media and market logic. The newly emergent type of seniority between the central and the peripheral is perceived as currently highly important for the affirmation of peripheral musical cultures and their overcoming the status of marginal. Because their belonging to the new type of centre mostly depends literally on themselves and their relevant initiatives, without the psychological, socio-economical or political burden which is otherwise implied by the implanted awareness of belonging both to the marginal and the mainstream cultures within the 'old' hierarchy.

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