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Becoming a YouTube Musician: How People Learn, Create, and Connect Online book cover

1st Edition

Becoming a YouTube Musician How People Learn, Create, and Connect Online

By Christopher Cayari Copyright 2026
168 Pages 13 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

168 Pages 13 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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As the most-visited social media site on the internet, the video-sharing platform YouTube has become a highly influential space for musicmaking and learning. Becoming a YouTube Musician: How People Learn, Create, and Connect Online explores how YouTube creators and viewers are using digital video to create and consume music, develop online communities, and engage in formal, informal, and... Read more

Forword: Informal Music Learning in the YouTube Era

Chapter 1 - YouTube as a Site for Musical Learning, Creating, and Connecting

Chapter 2 – Three Online Learning Arenas: YouTube Musicians Acquiring the Skills for Content Creation

Chapter 3 – DIY Video Production and YouTube Musicians' Creative Processes

Chapter 4 – Making Music with Others on the Internet: Do-It-With-Others (DIWO) Collaborations

Chapter 5 – Collective Music Making, Crowdsourcing, and Do-It-For-Others (DIFO) Projects

Chapter 6 – YouTube Musicians Connecting through Online Communities

Chapter 7 – YouTube as a Teaching Medium

Biography

Christopher Cayari is Associate Professor of Music Education, Curriculum and Instruction (courtesy), and Womens, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (affiliate) at Purdue University, West Lafayette-Indianapolis.

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