[ecrea] New book: ‘Networked Music Cultures: Contemporary approaches, emerging issues.

We are delighted to announce the following publication, which we hope 
might be of interest to you:


Raphaël Nowak and Andrew Whelan (eds.), /Networked Music Cultures: 
Contemporary approaches, emerging issues./

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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.

*Contents*

1. Editors’ introduction – Raphaël Nowak and Andrew Whelan

2. The People’s Mixtape: Peer-to-Peer File Sharing without the Internet 
in Contemporary Cuba – Tom Astley

3. Musica Analytica: The Datafication of Listening – Robert Prey

4. The Legacy of Napster – Matthew David

5. Streaming Music in Japan: Corporate Cultures as Determinants of 
Listening Practice – Noriko Manabe

6. Making Sense of Acquiring Music in Mexico City – Víctor Ávila-Torres

7. Reading Songs, Experiencing Music: Co-creation, Materiality and 
Expertise in Beck’s /Song Reader /– Antoni Roig and Gemma San Cornelio

8. The Digital Music Boundary Object – Raphaël Nowak and Andrew Whelan

9. ‘A Step Back to the Dark Ages of the Music Industry’: Democratisation 
of Record Production and Discourses on Spotify in /Kuka Mitä Häh? /

   – Juho Kaitajärvi-Tiekso

10. Off the Charts: The Implications of Incorporating Streaming Data 
into the Charts – Steve Collins and Pat O’Grady

11. Rethinking the Digital Playlist: Mixtapes, Nostalgia
and Emotionally Durable Design – Kieran Fenby-Hulse

12. 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

13. Pachelbel This Ain’t: Mashups and Canon (De)formation – Anthony Cushing

14. Music Streaming the Everyday Life – Anja Nylund Hagen

More details can be found here: 
http://www.palgrave.com/de/book/9781137582898#aboutBook

With our very best wishes,

Andrew and Raphaël

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