1st Edition

Digital Music Distribution The Sociology of Online Music Streams

By Hendrik Storstein Spilker Copyright 2017
220 Pages
by Routledge

218 Pages
by Routledge

218 Pages
by Routledge

The digital music revolution and the rise of piracy cultures has transformed the music world as we knew it. Digital Music Distribution aims to go beyond the polarized and reductive perception of ‘piracy wars’ to offer a broader and richer understanding of the paradoxes inherent in new forms of distribution. Covering both production and consumption perspectives, Spilker analyses the changes and... Read more



DIGITAL MUSIC DISTRIBUTION: *

The sociology of online music streams *



Hendrik Storstein Spilker *



Table of contents *



Acknowledgements *



 



CHAPTER 1 *



Introduction: Digital Dramas *



Music On Demand? *



The Folding of Technologies *



Into and Beyond «The Piracy Wars» *



 



CHAPTER 2: *



Not only about listening: Understanding the new everyday life of music *



Perspectives on the Appropriation of Digital Music *



Analyzing youth *



The omnipresence and omni-interest in music *



Top ten music-related practices *



You can always get what you want? *



 



CHAPTER 3 *



The value of access: Negotiating file-sharing and streaming among youth and with parents *



Domesticating controversial technologies *



Piracy as morality and rebellion *



Digital music technologies as generational boundary markers and asymmetries *



Reflections on piracy and legality *



Together in crime? *



Music in context – negotiating other ICT’s *



An access culture? *



 



CHAPTER 4 *



In search of the "hacker-punk": Digital music technologies for countercultural measures? *



The promises of Punk Style Do-it-yourself *



The Quest for the Hacker Punk *



What is so Punk about Punk? *



The Digitalized Underground *



In Search of the Hacker Punk *



The Gap between Near and Bin(e)

Biography

Hendrik Storstein Spilker is associate professor in media sociology at the Institute for Sociology and Political Science at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim