[Commlist] New book: Streaming Music, Streaming Capital

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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“/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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