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October 12, 2026Musicology Australia

Making Synthwave: How an Online Music Community Invented a Genre

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Jess Ward’s monograph Making Synthwave: How an Online Music Community Invented a Genre documents the formation of synthwave as an online musical genre and community of practice. Positioned at the i...

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Angus Lee (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6ad06c680baecf8d117b87e6 https://doi.org/10.1080/08145857.2026.2725395

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