Networked Music Cultures: Contemporary Approaches, Emerging Issues

Author:   Raphaël Nowak ,  Andrew Whelan
Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
Edition:   1st ed. 2016
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9781137582898


Pages:   251
Publication Date:   27 September 2016
Format:   Hardback
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This collection presents a range of essays on contemporary music distribution and consumption patterns and practices. The contributors to the collection use a variety of theoretical and methodological approaches, discussing the consequences and effects of the digital distribution of music as it is manifested in specific cultural contexts. The widespread circulation of music in digital form has far-reaching consequences: not least for how we understand the practices of sourcing and consuming music, the political economy of the music industries, and the relationships between format and aesthetics. Through close empirical engagement with a variety of contexts and analytical frames, the contributors to this collection demonstrate that the changes associated with networked music are always situationally specific, sometimes contentious, and often unexpected in their implications.  With chapters covering topics such as the business models of streaming audio, policy and professional discourses around the changing digital music market, the creative affordances of format and circulation, and local practices of accessing and engaging with music in a range of distinct cultural contexts, the book presents an overview of the themes, topics and approaches found in current social and cultural research on the relations between music and digital technology. 

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Author:   Raphaël Nowak ,  Andrew Whelan
Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Edition:   1st ed. 2016
Dimensions:   Width: 14.80cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 21.00cm
Weight:   4.501kg
ISBN:  

9781137582898


ISBN 10:   1137582898
Pages:   251
Publication Date:   27 September 2016
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Editors' Introduction – Raphaël Nowak and Andrew Whelan.- 1.The People’s Mixtape: Peer-to-Peer File Sharing Without the Internet in Contemporary Cuba – Tom Astley.- 2.Musica Analytica: The Datafication of Listening – Robert Prey.- 3.The Legacy of Napster – Matthew David.- 4.Streaming Music in Japan: Corporate Cultures as Determinants of Listening Practice – Noriko Manabe.- 5.Making Sense of Acquiring Music in Mexico City – Víctor Ávila-Torres.- 6.Reading Songs, Experiencing Music: Co-creation, Materiality and Expertise in Beck's Song Reader – Antoni Roig and Gemma San Cornelio.- 7.The Digital Music Boundary Object – Raphaël Nowak and Andrew Whelan.- 8.‘A Step Back to the Dark Ages of the Music Industry’: Experiencing the Democratization of Record Production and Discourses on Spotify in the Finnish Music Industries Communication Group 'Kuka Mitä Häh?' – Juho Kaitajärvi-Tiekso.- 9.Off the Charts: The Implications of Incorporating Streaming Data into the Charts – Steve Collins and Pat O’Grady.- 10.Rethinking the Digital Playlist: Mixtapes, Nostalgia, and Emotionally Durable Design – Kieran Fenby-Hulse.- 11.A Song for Ireland? Policy Discourse and Wealth Generation in the Music Industry in the Context of Digital Upheavals and Economic Crisis – Jim Rogers and Anthony Cawley.- 12.Pachelbel this Ain’t: Mashups and Canon (De)formation – Anthony Cushing .- 13.Streaming the Everyday Life – Anja Nylund Hagen 

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Authors cover a vast range of topics from music industry practices to the impact that digital music distribution and consumption has on culture and society. ... The book would generally appeal to researchers and academics in the study of cultural studies and sociology, and would serve as useful research for under/postgraduate students as well as set reading texts in degree programmes. (Shara Rambarran, Volume!, Vol. 15 (1), 2018)


Author Information

Raphaël Nowak is a cultural sociologist interested in issues of music consumption and technologies. He currently teaches in popular music, social theory and cultural sociology at the University of Bristol, UK. He published his first manuscript Consuming Music in the Digital Age in 2015 with Palgrave Macmillan.  Andrew Whelan is a sociologist based at the University of Wollongong in New South Wales, Australia. He has published previously on digital media, Australian media regulation policy, ‘extreme’ music and underground electronic music subcultures, peer-to-peer file-sharing and online interaction about music.

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