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title: "DIY: The Rise of Lo-Fi Culture"
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# DIY: The Rise of Lo-Fi Culture

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## Customer Reviews

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    Repetitious History
  

*by D***C on Reviewed in the United States on October 20, 2009*

For those readers already familiar with Michael Azzerand's "Our Band Could Be Your Life" (cited in this book) or Kaya Oakes "Slanted or Enchanted" (published later) Amy Spencer's disconnected, narrow history of the DIY culture might appear to simply be retracing limited steps. The Minutemen's "jamming econo" ethos sets the foundation, but fails to incorporate much more beyond a background on the (now-obsolete) art of writing zines and nurturing mail-order punk labels, despite the culture's rich history and significant modern-day presence. (Azzerand's book thoroughly discusses legendary punk label distributors, while Oake's traces independent publishing back to the beat poets).With that said, I would recommend this book only to younger readers (let's say mid to late teens) who are already engaged and inspired by DIY, but not all that familiar with (some of) its roots.

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    Four Stars
  

*by A***I on Reviewed in the United States on January 3, 2015*

good book.

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    Good for historical info, but not for analysis
  

*by T***N on Reviewed in the United States on March 22, 2006*

This book read really quickly, and was full of neat information that I never knew before, but I can't help wishing it had been better written and edited. I caught several (as in way, way too many) grammatical errors and typos. On top of that, the style was close to awful, with strange sentence construction that distracted from the point of the work.Like I said, the information was neat, but the analysis was bare bones, and mostly made huge assumptions in the reader's familiarity with the subject matter. I very much enjoyed learning all the historical details I never knew before, like that sci-fi fans wrote the first real zines in the 1930s. But when it came to the more modern stuff, the eras I know more about, there was little in the way of new or exciting information. Thought-provoking analysis would have made up for this, but it just wasn't there.I got this book on a recommendation from one of the feminist magazines I read, and I'm not terribly upset to have it in my collection. It'll make a good source to cite for clear historical info. Other than that, it's pretty lackluster.

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