Not Just a Zine: the “Rollin Under” Zine and Thessaloniki’s DIY Music-making (1985 – 1990). Thessaloniki’s DIY Music Scene
Not Just a Zine: the “Rollin Under” Zine and Thessaloniki’s DIY Music-making (1985 – 1990). Thessaloniki’s DIY Music Scene
Author(s): Alexandra KaramoutsiouSubject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, History, Social Sciences, Fine Arts / Performing Arts, Cultural history, Music, Recent History (1900 till today), Post-War period (1950 - 1989), History of Communism
Published by: Historický ústav SAV
Keywords: self-published publication;samizdat;fanzines;rock music;greece;
Summary/Abstract: From the early 1980s, with the common ground of the DIY ethos, lots of and different kinds of popular music idioms (from hardcore, punk to reggae and trip-hop) blossomed in Thessaloniki, Greece. This rich and constant music-making would not have been as vivid during its first period (1982 – 1994) without its own pillars of distribution, which consisted of independent labels and music stores, pirate radio stations and fanzines. In this essay I will focus on Thessaloniki’s emblematic fanzine Rollin Under, which was active from 1985 to 1992. I will show the relationship between Rollin Under, Thessaloniki’s music scene, the DIY ethos and the Greece’s historical and political context of that time. Finally, I will describe fanzines as alternative cultural spaces through which we music historians can “hear” the voices and untold stories of the participants of the music we research.
Journal: Forum Historiae. Časopis a portál pre históriu a príbuzné spoločenské vedy
- Issue Year: 14/2020
- Issue No: 2
- Page Range: 58-72
- Page Count: 15
- Language: English