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The identity of the party or parties who popularized the use of "lo-fi" cannot be determined definitively. as a deliberate aesthetic choice." Script error: No such module "Footnotes". A third was added in 2008: "unpolished, amateurish, or technologically unsophisticated, esp. Consequently, in 2003, the Oxford Dictionary added a second definition for the term-"a genre of rock music characterized by minimal production, giving a raw and unsophisticated sound". By the end of the 1980s, qualities such as "home-recorded", "technically primitive", and "inexpensive equipment" were commonly associated with the "lo-fi" label, and throughout the 1990s, such ideas became central to how "lo-fi" was popularly understood. Afterward, "DIY" was often used interchangeably with "lo-fi". There was virtually no appreciation for the imperfections of lo-fi music among critics until the 1980s, during which there was an emergent romanticism for home-recording and " do-it-yourself" (DIY) qualities. Murray Schafer, in the glossary for his 1977 book The Tuning of the World, defined the term as "unfavourable signal-to-noise ratio." Script error: No such module "Footnotes". In the 1976 edition of the Oxford English Dictionary, lo-fi was added under the definition of "sound production less good in quality than 'hi-fi'". Usually spelled as "low-fi" before the 1990s, the term has existed since at least the 1950s, shortly after the acceptance of "high fidelity", and its definition evolved continuously between the 1970s and 2000s.


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