DIY House Shows and Music Venues in the US

<p><em>DIY House Shows and Music Venues in the US</em> is an interdisciplinary study of house concerts and other types of DIY (do- it- yourself) music venues and events in the United States such as warehouses all- ages clubs and guerrilla shows with its primary focus on West Coast American DIY locales. It approaches the subject not only through a cultural analysis of sound and discourse as it is common in popular music studies but primarily through an ethnographic examination of place space and community. Focusing on DIY houses music venues social spaces and local and translocal cultural geographies the author examines how American DIY communities constitute themselves in relation to their social and spatial environment. The ethnographic approach shows the inner workings of American DIY culture and how the particular people within particular places strive to achieve a social ideal of an intimate community. This research contributes to the sparse range of Western popular music studies (especially regarding rock punk and experimental music) that approach their subject matter through a participatory ethnographic research.</p>