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[Commlist] New book: Streaming Music, Streaming Capital

Tue Apr 09 12:42:17 GMT 2024





We would like to announce a new publication from Duke University Press, which we hope will be of interest.

*Streaming Music, Streaming Capital***

*Eric Drott***

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*_https://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/9781478025740/streaming-music-streaming-capital/ <https://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/9781478025740/streaming-music-streaming-capital/> _*

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*Receive a 20% discount online*:*

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*Valid until 11:59 GMT, 31^st December 2024. Discount only applies to the CAP website.

“/Streaming Music, Streaming Capital/is terrific. Eric Drott offers us an assured and learned guide to understanding recorded music in the present conjuncture and likely for years to come. As a study of the political and psychic economies of music streaming, it is unparalleled and will be a must-read.”- Sumanth Gopinath, author of /The Ringtone Dialectic: Economy and Cultural Form/

/In Streaming Music, Streaming Capital/, Eric Drott analyzes the political economy of online music streaming platforms. Attentive to the way streaming has reordered the production, circulation, and consumption of music, Drott examines key features of this new musical economy, including the roles played by data collection, playlisting, new methods of copyright enforcement, and the calculation of listening metrics. Yet because streaming underscores how uneasily music sits within existing regimes of private property, its rise calls for a broader reconsideration of music’s complex and contradictory relation to capitalism. Drott's analysis is not simply a matter of how music is formatted in line with dominant measures of economic value; equally important is how music eludes such measures, a situation that threatens to reduce music to a cheap, abundant resource. By interrogating the tensions between streaming’s benefits and pitfalls, Drott sheds light on music’s situation within digital capitalism, from growing concentrations of monopoly power and music’s use in corporate surveillance to issues of musical value, labor, and artist pay.

*Eric Drott*is Associate Professor of Music Theory at the University of Texas at Austin and author of /Music and the Elusive Revolution: Cultural Politics and Political Culture in France/, 1968–1981.



*Duke University Press **| February 2024 | 360pp | 9781478025740 | PB | £25.99**

*Price subject to change.

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