ABSTRACT This article discusses the notion of amiguismo within Chilean indie music circles. Amiguismo is the contention that indie music in Chile is produced through interpersonal favours, thus hamstringing the sector’s economic and artistic development. The article analyses how two indie music venues in Santiago are composed by interconnected musicians and media workers. It contends that complaints about amiguismo arise as participants seek to make their activities of musical production and circulation economically sustainable. The struggle over resources highlights the politics of sociality underlying music production, which clashes with historical understandings of art, the public sphere, and the market as a-social. The notion of amiguismo thus highlights the political dimension of musical and social life within the ideologies of capitalist modernity that deny such politics. The article argues for the importance of examining economic concerns in analyses of the formation of public culture and musical meaning, and suggests that musical study can contribute to understanding the contradictions of capitalism.

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Amiguismo：智利圣地亚哥的资本主义、社会性和独立音乐的可持续性

摘要 本文讨论了智利独立音乐圈内的 amiguismo 概念。Amiguismo 认为智利的独立音乐是通过人际交往产生的，从而阻碍了该行业的经济和艺术发展。本文分析了圣地亚哥的两个独立音乐场所是如何由相互关联的音乐家和媒体工作者组成的。它争辩说，当参与者试图使他们的音乐制作和流通活动在经济上可持续时，就会出现对 amiguismo 的抱怨。对资源的争夺凸显了音乐制作背后的社会政治，这与对艺术、公共领域和非社会市场的历史理解相冲突。因此，amiguismo 的概念在否认这种政治的资本主义现代性意识形态中突出了音乐和社会生活的政治维度。文章论证了在分析公共文化和音乐意义的形成时检查经济问题的重要性，并建议音乐研究有助于理解资本主义的矛盾。