Independent Music and Digital Technology in the Philippines

In the first in-depth investigation into the independent music scene in the Philippines, Monika E. Schoop exposes and portrays the as yet unexplored restructurings of the Philippine music industries, showing that digital technologies have played an ambivalent role in these developments. Based on extensive fieldwork online and offline, the book explores the diverse and innovative music production, distribution, promotion and financing strategies that have become constitutive of the independent music scene in twenty-first-century Manila.

Monika E. Schoop is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Cologne and visiting lecturer at the University of Würzburg.

Preface 1. Introduction Part I 2. Metro Manila's Independent Scene 3. What Happened to the Music Industries? Part II 4. In Bedrooms and Real Estate Offices: Independent Music Production 5. From SoundCloud to iTunes to the Gigs: Distributing Independent Music 6. Everything Is Online? Promoting the Scene 7. Raising Funds with Artiste Connect: Crowdfunding in the Philippines 8. Conclusion: Everyone Is Indie Now? Postface