Indie

Indie is a shortform of "independence" or "independent"; it may refer to:

• Independent media
  • Indie art, fine arts made by artists independent of commercial fine arts establishments
  • Indie design, for handmade products by independent artisans
  • Indie literature, a book published outside mainstream publishing
  • Indie social action, collections of individuals creating media for change
  • Small press, a book or magazine publisher whose publications appeal to small, niche audiences, and are typically not distributed widely
• Indie comics
• Independent business (unique and not part of a chain or larger corporation).
• Independent circuit, professional wrestling independent promotions
• Independent church (disambiguation), a church unaffiliated with a denominational organization
• Independent film, a low-budget film by a small studio
• Independent soda, made by small privately run companies

Games

• Indie role-playing game, a role-playing game published outside of traditional, "mainstream" means
• Indie RPG Awards, annual, creator-based awards for Indie role-playing game products
• Indie game, any game (video, board-based, or otherwise) published or produced outside mainstream means
• Independent video game development, video games created without financial backing from large companies
• Indie Fund, an organization created by several independent game developers to help fund budding indie video game development
• Indie Game Jam, an effort to rapidly prototype video game designs and inject new ideas into the game industry

Music

• Independent record label, operates without major corporate funding
• Independent music, subculture music that is independent of major producers
  • Indie dance, or alternative dance, a type of dance music rooted on indie rock and indie pop
  • Indie electronic
  • Indie folk, a music genre that arose in the 1990s from singer/songwriters in the indie rock community showing heavy influences from folk music scenes of the 1950s, 1960s and early 1970s, country music, and indie rock
  • Indie hip hop, hip hop music that primarily exists in the independent music scene
  • Indie pop, a genre of alternative pop music
  • Indie rock, a genre of alternative rock music
• Indie Recordings, a Norwegian independent record label specialising in heavy metal

Television

• How to Be Indie, Canadian preteen/teen TV series

See also

• Indi (disambiguation)
• Indies (disambiguation)
• Indy (disambiguation)
• List of independent radio stations
• The Independent (disambiguation)