Explains what happened to music—for both artists and fans—when music went online.
Playing to the Crowd explores and explains how the rise of digital communication platforms …

Selling Digital Music, Formatting Culture documents the transition of recorded music on CDs
to music as digital files on computers. More than two decades after the first digital music files …

This article traces the formation of popular music idol industries in China and the emergence
of data fandom. It charts the growth of digital platforms and historicizes the commercial and …

This chapter examines how aspirations for normative ideals of and empirical beliefs in
independence elide analysis of the relationships that exist between networks and …

Purpose–The idea of “creating something from nothing” resonates strongly with the creation
process associated with artists. The Levi-Strauss and Baker and Nelson discussions also …

This article explores surveillance in cloud-based music streaming. Key catalysts in the
transition from ownership-to access-based models of music distribution, services like Spotify …

This article will discuss the impact of COVID-19 on Chinese cultural industries, in particular
independent music based on live interviews with musicians, venue owners, labels and …

This article frames the relationship between datafication and literacy as a key to understand
participation, power, and processes of democratization in a platform–dominated music …

This article traces the debates occurring in the music industry where blockchain technology
surged as an ideal solution for long-standing disagreements over distribution, publishing …

This paper explores the working life of early-career musicians after technological
innovations transformed the music industry. Based on in-depth interviews, a diary …