Recent popular music and film studies have revealed the political functions of documentaries about musicians. These studies suggest that such documentaries make powerful interventions into the field of music production as they construct the value of their subjects and their work. Owing to the expense and complexity of broadcast equipment, production companies have tended to favour documentaries about artists and work considered to be popular and historically significant. Over the past 15 years, however, new technologies have allowed musicians to make documentaries themselves, which they can release at the same time as their song or album. Using the example of Gotye and his album Making Mirrors, this article argues that these developments have led to powerful and distinct interventions into debates and themes within home music production for independent musicians. It also argues that the use of this technology on social media platforms challenges the relationships between text and process.

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制作镜子、制作专辑和制作纪录片：Gotye 的音乐与布迪厄文化生产领域的谈判

最近的流行音乐和电影研究揭示了有关音乐家的纪录片的政治功能。这些研究表明，此类纪录片在构建主题和作品的价值时对音乐制作领域进行了强有力的干预。由于广播设备的成本和复杂性，制作公司倾向于偏爱关于艺术家和作品的纪录片，这些作品被认为是流行的和具有历史意义的。然而，在过去的 15 年里，新技术让音乐家们可以自己制作纪录片，他们可以与歌曲或专辑同时发行。以 Gotye 和他的专辑 Making Mirrors 为例，本文认为，这些发展导致对独立音乐家的家庭音乐制作中的辩论和主题进行有力而独特的干预。它还认为，在社交媒体平台上使用这项技术挑战了文本和过程之间的关系。