Streaming Sounds

Musical Listening in the Digital Age

Michael James Walsh (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

180 Seiten

2024
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-22617-0 (ISBN)

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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 lives in a context where streaming services are focused on not only the circulation of music for users but also the circulation of user data and attention.

Drawing insights directly from interviews with users, music streaming is explained as never merely a neutral technology but rather one that seeks to actively shape user engagement. Users respond to streaming platforms with some relishing these aspects that provide music to be drawn into daily activities while others show signs of resistance. It is this tension that this book explores.

This unique and accessible study will be ideal reading for both scholars and students of popular music studies, communication studies, sociology, media and cultural studies.

Michael James Walsh is an Australian sociologist and Associate Professor at the University of Canberra, Australia. His research interests include the sociology of interaction, the writings of Erving Goffman, cultural sociology, technology and music. A chief dimension of his research involves exploring the reception of communication technologies as they relate to and impact on social interaction.

Introduction: Streaming and the transformation of music listening 1. User-made playlists and the shaping of social interaction 2. Platform-generated playlists and the curation of musical listening 3. Social media convergence: Presenting the self through music listening 4. The networking of music streaming: Facilitating interaction and obtaining discretion 5. Ubiquitous music streaming: Incorporating music into the everyday

Erscheinungsdatum	06.04.2024
Reihe/Serie	Sound in Urban and Popular Culture
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	489 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Musiktheorie / Musiklehre
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Pop / Rock
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-032-22617-X / 103222617X
ISBN-13	978-1-032-22617-0 / 9781032226170
Zustand	Neuware