[Commlist] call for papers : Streaming economy and music cultures

Streaming economy and music cultures: circulation strategies and digital 
music consumption practices.

Deadlines:

Submission: 16^th . June 2025

Publication: by September 2025

Invited editors: Leonardo De Marchi (UFRJ) and Gustavo Ferreira (Toronto 
University).

After years of experimenting with new digital music business models, 
audio and video streaming services have become the predominant method of 
distributing digital music in virtually every market in the world. This 
centrality has brought with it a series of changes in the way that 
consumers listen to music, as well as musicians produce their works. On 
consumption side, the playlist format became the preferred one to listen 
to digital music and the automatic music recommendation systems gained 
prominence for access to digital catalogs. On the production side, the 
modus operandi of streaming services also changed the strategies for 
composing and releasing songs. Given the low monetary returns paid by 
digital platforms, many artists have adopted different tactics to 
conduct their careers: the album format has been abandoned in favor of 
singles in sequence, the band format has been reduced to the one-man 
band model, and new compositions follows the biases of the 
recommendation systems in order to be included in the most listened 
playlists. Finally, music produced by generative Artificial Intelligence 
(GenAI) has already become a real threat to the music industry, raising 
several concerns: would GenAI be able to replace human artists? What is 
the aesthetics of music produced by GenAI? How will this new technology 
affect copyright laws? Is it possible to protect human composers and 
performers against this new technology?

            This dossier invites researchers to submit papers that 
analyses and assess the digital music industry in its most diverse 
aspects: new music consumption practices, the effects of music 
recommendation systems, music production strategies, the digital music 
economy and its effects on the musicians practices, laws for the 
regulation of music streaming services, cultural policies aimed at 
fostering cultural diversity in the digital music market, especially 
those of the global south, the use of GenAI for music production and its 
practical effects on the music economy as well as on copyright laws, 
among other aspects that could help to understand what the music 
industry is, how it works and what will become in the years to come.

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