Slanted and Enchanted: The Evolution of Indie Culture (Henry Holt & Co.)

Photo of Kaya Oakes by Patty Nason.

Slanted and Enchanted: The Evolution of Indie Culture

We're looking forward to this panel discussion on the development of indie culture in America. Kaya Oakes, author of the new book on the topic, Slanted and Enchanted, will be joined by Ben Bush, editor of The Fanzine; Courtney Knopf of Everloving Records; and Daniel House of CZ Records. Justin Gage, founder of the fantastic music blog Aquarium Drunkard, will moderate, and the band The Old Lumps will play a short set to start things off.

Kaya Oakes is the co-founder of Kitchen Sink magazine, which won the Utne Independent Press Award for Best New Magazine in 2002, and currently is a writing instructor at the University of California, Berkeley.

Based in Los Angeles, Justin Gage is the founder of both the influential music blog Aquarium Drunkard as well as Autumn Tone Records. He also hosts, and is the program director, for the weekly Aquarium Drunkard show on Sirius/XM satellite radio. His first book, Memphis And The Delta Blues Trail, was published in May via Countrymen Press.

Slanted and Enchanted: The Evolution of Indie Culture (Paperback)

By Kaya Oakes

$14.00

ISBN-13: 9780805088526
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Holt Paperbacks, 06/01/2009

As the signature style bleeds into mainstream fashion, the individuality of the indie movement seems to be losing ground. Oakes demonstrates how this phase is part of the natural cycle of a culture that reinvents itself continuously to preserve its core ideals.

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