Delicate Balances: The Roles of Amateur Concert Videos in the Galician Underground Scene

Abstract

This chapter approaches videos that capture the activity of the Galician underground music scene, doing it through film analysis and interviews. Within the context of audiovisual representations of music, these kinds of videos imply a rupture with the canonical tendency to give stars a central role, taking some elements from home movies and reflecting the collective nature of scenes. At the same time, they reflect a series of features caused by the democratization of access to cameras in the digital age. Therefore, the text tries to give attention to a usually overlooked tendency that opens the specter of music documentaries while it also presents tensions that come from the dynamics of digital cinema and the current public sphere.