Making Synthwave: How an Online Music Community Invented a Genre

Making Synthwave: How an Online Music Community Invented a Genre documents the journey of an online community in their formation of the synthwave genre.

Jess Blaise Ward (Leeds Beckett University, UK) is a synth artist and researcher of genre formation, online music communities, subcultural theory and feminist scholarship. Past publications include ’Who remembers post-punk women?’ (2019) and her paper on metalheads in the online synthwave community at the Internet Musicking conference (2022).