Vaporwave is a microgenre of music that emerged on the Internet in the 2010s. It is characterized by an ex-tensive use of slowed-down audio loops sampled from kitschy sources, such as easy-listening …

Vaporwave is music that, created from digital manipulations of previous digital record-ings, exists entirely online; there are no live concerts, only streamed or downloadable tracks.

Vaporwave plays on different aspects of nostalgia – such as reflective and restorative nostalgia, two concepts defined by Svetlana Boym – and on an ambiguous rejection of the pres-ent.

streaming and social media services have become more ubiquitous. In order to acknowledge the relevance and importance of these texts in academia and art, this paper conducts a three-part …

Abstract: Vaporwave is a music genre that appears in the 2010s and it lives on the internet. It remixes clips from the 1980s or 90s music and electronic sounds, which gives people a strong sense of …

visualising the results as patterns of interlinkage. This article presents the results of an experiment in which we depart from Rogers’ use of IC by applying the method to socio-cultural analysis, in …

First, it is established that subculture and music play important roles in identity formation. Next, the rise and fall of Vaporwave is described. Finally, Vaporwave's demise suggests that internet-only …