Ask the indie professor: why do Americans think they invented indie?

For years, Americans never used the term 'indie', preferring to label the likes of Bush 'alternative'. But things changed ...Why do so many Americans think they invented indie? SimianBaffinThere has never been an authoritative definition of indie in the United States. The term only came into popular usage in America in the 2000s. The indie nomenclature was initially co-opted and embraced by video gamers, then in cinema discourse, and finally by the American music community.There are dramatic dif...

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