Editing Do it yourself (section)

===Music===
{{see also|Guerrilla gig|Independent music|Lo-fi music}}
Much contemporary DIY music has its origins in the late 1970s [[punk rock]] subculture.<ref name=diyspace>{{cite web|last1=Mumford|first1=Gwilym|title=Eagulls, Hookworms, Joanna Gruesome: how UK music scenes are going DIY|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/dec/06/hookworms-joanna-gruesome-uk-diy-music|work=The Guardian|date=6 December 2014|access-date=9 June 2015}}</ref> It developed as a way to circumnavigate the corporate mainstream [[music industry]].<ref name=albini>{{cite web|last1=Albini|first1=Steve|title=Steve Albini on the surprisingly sturdy state of the music industry – in full|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/nov/17/steve-albinis-keynote-address-at-face-the-music-in-full|work=The Guardian|date=17 November 2014|access-date=9 June 2015}}</ref> By controlling the entire production and distribution chain, DIY bands attempt to develop a closer relationship between artists and fans. The DIY ethic gives total control over the final product without need to compromise with record major labels.<ref name=albini/>

According to the punk aesthetic, one can express oneself and produce moving and serious works with limited means.<ref>[[David Byrne]], Jeremy Deller, [http://www.davidbyrne.com/news/press/articles/modernpainters_2010.php ''Audio Games''], in ''[[Modern Painters (magazine)|Modern Painters]]'', March 1, 2010. "I think I embrace a bit of the punk aesthetic that one can express oneself with two chords if that's all you know, and likewise one can make a great film with limited means or skills or clothes or furniture. It's just as moving and serious as works that employ great skill and craft sometimes. Granted, when you learn that third chord, or more, you don't have to continue making 'simple' things, unless you want to. Sometimes that's a problem."</ref> Arguably, the earliest example of this attitude{{failed verification|date=December 2019}} was the punk music scene of the 1970s.<ref>{{cite journal |url = http://jdh.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/19/1/69|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20060630085418/http://jdh.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/19/1/69|archive-date = 2006-06-30|title = Oxford Journal of Design History Webpage| journal=Journal of Design History | date=March 2006 | volume=19 | issue=1 | pages=69–83 | doi=10.1093/jdh/epk006 |access-date = 2007-09-24|quote = "Yet, it remains within the subculture of punk music where the homemade, A4, stapled and photocopied fanzines of the late 1970s fostered the 'do-it-yourself' (DIY) production techniques of cut-n-paste letterforms, photocopied and collaged images, hand-scrawled and typewritten texts, to create a recognizable graphic design aesthetic." | last1=Triggs | first1=Teal | url-access=subscription }}</ref>

More recently, the orthodox understanding that DIY originates in 1970s punk, with its clearest practices being in the self-produced 7" single and self-published fanzines, has been challenged. As George McKay asks in the title of his 2023 article: 'Was punk DIY? Is DIY punk?' McKay argues instead for what he terms a 'depunking' of DIY.<ref>{{cite journal | url=https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/27538702231216190 | doi=10.1177/27538702231216190 | title=Was punk DIY? Is DIY punk? Interrogating the DIY/Punk nexus, with particular reference to the early UK punk scene, ''c'' . 1976–1984 | date=2024 | last1=McKay | first1=George | journal=Diy, Alternative Cultures & Society | volume=2 | pages=94–109 | doi-access=free }}</ref> 

[[Riot grrrl]], associated with [[third-wave feminism]], also adopted the core values of the DIY punk ethic by leveraging creative ways of communication through [[zines]] and other projects.<ref>{{Cite news | last1 = Bennet | first1 = Andy | last2 =Peterson | first2 =Richard A. | title = Music scenes: local, translocal and virtuas | pages = 116–117 | year = 2004 | publisher = Vanderbilt University Press | isbn = 978-0-8265-1451-6 | url =https://books.google.com/books?id=zrGa3vYOoZgC&q=do%20it%20yourself%20riot%20grrrl&pg=PA115 }}</ref>

Adherents of the DIY punk ethic also work collectively. For example, punk impresario [[David Ferguson (impresario)|David Ferguson]]'s [[David Ferguson (impresario)#CD Presents|CD Presents]] was a DIY [[concert production]], [[recording studio]], and [[record label]] network.<ref>{{Cite news | last = Jarrell | first = Joe | title = Putting Punk in Place--Among the Classics | newspaper = [[San Francisco Chronicle]] | pages = PK–45 | date = 26 September 2004 | url =http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/09/26/PKGVR8RVV91.DTL }}</ref>