Since 2015 a number of startups has emerged seeking to commercialise music AI. Two
types of firm stand out. One markets services directly to consumers, in the form of adaptive …

This paper asks why growing numbers of government agencies, professional conservation
authorities, university researchers, citizen scientists, and private companies are turning to …

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 …

In July 2017 The Verge reported that popular streaming music service Spotify was
employing a handful of musicians to produce over fifty tracks to fill out the company's …

Reproduction is a central but largely unquestioned concept in sound and music studies,
where it is typically used to refer to the capture, mediation, repetition, and distribution of …

In a time when music streaming has become the dominant mode of consuming music
recordings, this book interrogates how users go about listening to music in their everyday …

European Romanticism gave rise to a powerful discourse equating genres to constrictive
rules and forms that great art should transcend; and yet without the categories and …

This article develops the concept of an improvisational aesthetic of imperfection and
intimacy for “trebling-effect” music livestreams, or webcasts where listeners may interact with …

This article explores how the possibilities of historical thinking are particularly unimpeded
across a wealth of practices circulated around and in popular music. These possibilities are …

Ted Striphas recently called for a return to the “problem of culture” within cultural studies.
This is a political as much as a methodological provocation:“culture” became an object of …