Ask the indie professor

Want to learn about the religious subtext to the Vaselines? Or why we like to stage dive? Then ask UCLA's professor of anthropology (and die-hard indie rock fan)Last month in Madrid, Diego A Manrique, a man who is pretty much the Spanish equivalent of John Peel, introduced me at the Dia de la Musica festival as the world's only professor of indie music. I'm not sure if I'm the only indie professor, but I've spent the last 18 years recording, examining and writing about the culture of indie and t...

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