[Commlist] New book: Music Streaming Around the World

/Music Streaming Around the World/, edited by David Hesmondhalgh, 
published by University of California Press.

Available open access and/or as a fairly expensive paperback book from 
here: 
https://www.ucpress.edu/books/music-streaming-around-the-world/paper 
<https://www.ucpress.edu/books/music-streaming-around-the-world/paper>

Chapter titles and authors are below, followed by some nice endorsements 
from the back cover provided by people the editor knows (but the 
comments do seem to be sincere).

1. The Global Spread of Music Streaming: Capitalism and Colonialism, 
Technology and Culture

David Hesmondhalgh

2. Platformization and the Recording Industry in Kenya

Andrew J. Eisenberg

3. Music Streaming, Platform Labor, and Intermediaries

Emília Barna

4. Charting Anonymous Hits: How Short Video Platforms Have Changed the 
Chinese Music Industries

Shuwen Qu and D. Bondy Valdovinos Kaye

5. "From the Region, For the Region": Anghami and the Postcolonial 
Challenges of Localizing Music Streaming in Emerging Markets

Darci Sprengel

6. How Streaming Is Reshaping Latin American Music Culture: The Case of 
Mexican Corridos Tumbados

Rodrigo Gómez, Ignacio Gallego, and Argelia Muñoz-Larroa

7. The Japanese Transition to Streaming Music: Corporate Hesitancy and 
Individual Innovation

Noriko Manabe

8. Inside Playlist Pitching: Music Promotion on Streaming Platforms in Italy

Francesco D'Amato

9. Changes and Continuities in the Indian Nonfilm Recorded Music 
Industry under Platformization

Aditya Lal

10. Independent Music Creators and Self-Releasing in China: A History of 
Platformization

Zhongwei (Mabu) Li and D. Bondy Valdovinos Kaye

11. If Streaming Doesn't Pay the Bills, Will Advertising?

Onur Sesigür

12. Inequity by Design: Music Streaming Taxonomies as Ruinous Infrastructure

Raquel Campos Valverde

13. Streaming into the Metaverse

Jeremy Wade Morris

Afterword: Music Streaming and Throwing Stones

Yiu Fai Chow

"This outstanding book offers a vital corrective to dominant 
Western-centric accounts of music streaming. With richly textured case 
studies from Asia, Latin America, and Africa, it politicizes the 
culturalization of technology and complicates global power asymmetries. 
A landmark contribution that pluralizes music studies and media studies 
through deeply reflexive, decolonial, and globally grounded 
analysis."—Xin Gu, Monash University, Australia

"This book challenges the assumption that music streaming is a singular, 
homogenizing phenomenon predefined by the West. Instead it 
conceptualizes music streaming as a plurality of experiences, processes, 
and dynamics shaped by the richness of musical cultures—that is, by the 
diverse ways music is produced, distributed, and consumed around the 
world. Combining interdisciplinary insight with empirical depth and 
theoretical rigor, this book offers an essential rethinking of a crucial 
issue in culture and technology studies: how music streaming today 
embodies power inequalities that can be fully understood only through 
global perspectives."—Ignacio Siles, University of Costa Rica

"A timely and important volume. Music Streaming around the World 
investigates and questions presuppositions about the coloniality of this 
newly widespread form of recorded music distribution. It shows that, 
despite the pervasiveness of platforms and individualized listening, 
streaming's impact on the world's recorded music and its consumption has 
been uneven, and that this unevenness should temper and qualify grand 
pronouncements about the current state of an industry dominated by 
wealthy nations."—Sumanth Gopinath, University of Minnesota, USA

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