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"Drawing on dozens of original interviews and close analysis of Australian examples sampled from across 40 years of "indie" music, comedy, film, computer games, and graphic design, Fringe to Famous explores how some of Australia's leading cultural practitioners negotiate their position between the margins and the mainstream in the contemporary period. Fringe to Famous critically re-examines the relations between "independent" and "mainstream" cultural production at a time when the very meaning and relevance of those terms is being widely debated. In recent decades, critically-aware artists and their entrepreneurial business partners have engaged in a playful negotiation of marginal and mainstream tastes, harnessing the values associated with the creative underground-transgression, independence, authenticity-for both aesthetic and commercial ends. At the same time, crises in the business models of commercial media industries and the proliferation of online distribution have made ?mainstream? increasingly difficult to define."--

Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: From art school to beer barn -- 1 Imagining hybridity: A history of the present -- 2 Subverting the high ground: The hybridity of punk and post-punk music in Australia -- 3 Subcultural design: Wearing our art on our sleeve -- 4 From fringe theatre to prime time: The case of comedy -- 5 Alternative visions: The Indigenous wave and Australian independent cinema -- 6 The fringe in Freeplay: The independence of independent games -- Conclusion: Designing osmotic ecologies -- References -- Index.