Popular Music, Technology, and the Changing Media Ecosystem: From Cassettes to Stream

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Contents
Notes on Contributors
List of Figures
List of Tables
1 Continuity and Change in the Relationship Between Popular Music, Culture, and Technology: An Introduction
	Introduction
	“New” Technologies, Popular Music, and Society
	A Sides, Radio Edit, and YouTube Stars: Changing Materialities of Music Consumption
	Values, Meanings, Ethics: Cultural Factors in the Formation of Music Technologies
	Shelves, Folders, Playlists: Music, Technology, and Identity
	Conclusions
	References
Part  I Networks of Technology and Popular Music
2 Music Scenes as Infrastructures: From Live Venues to Algorithmic Data
	Introduction: Infrastructures and the Quest for New Tools in Popular Music Studies
	The Infrastructural Turn from Media to Music
	Infrastructures as Material Resources for Music Scenes
	Soft and Hard: Infrastructural Dynamics in Music Scenes
	From Virtual Scenes to Digital Music Infrastructures
	Platforms, Infomediation, and Algorithmic Data
	Conclusions
	References
3 From Music Scenes to Musicalized Networks: A Critical Perspective on Digitalization
	Introduction
	Music Scenes
	Proto-Markets
	Musicalized Networks
	Digitalization: New Uses in Music Distribution and New Markers of Artistic Recognition
	Digital Distribution and Music Genre Dynamics
	Social Media and Musicalized Networks
	Conclusions
	References
4 Niche Underground: Media, Technology, and the Reproduction of Underground Cultural Capital
	Introduction
	What Is Underground?
	The First Underground: The Political and the Unofficial
	The Second Underground: Against the Mainstream
	The Third Underground: Niche Cultures in the Digital Ecosystem
	Conclusions
	References
Part  II Taste, Authenticity and Digital Media
5 The Relentless Rise of the Poptimist Omnivore: Taste, Symbolic Power, and the Digitization of the Music Industries
	Introduction
	The Case of Song Exploder
	Musical Taste, Class, and the Rise of the Omnivore
	Digital Technology and Music as a Cultural Form: Cultural Hybridity in the Popular Music Mainstream
	Cultural Intermediation and Symbolic Power: The “Poptimist” Discourse
	Conclusions
	References
6 Frictionless Platforms, Frictionless Music: The Utopia of Streaming in Music Industry Press Narratives
	Introduction: The Imaginary Media of Frictionless Platforms
	Audience Categories and the Problem with the “Mainstream Audience”
	The Supposed Desire of the Mainstream Audience: Continuous Music, Without Interference
	Playlists Without Genres and Context
	“Alexa, Play Music”: Voice Control as a Reduction of Friction
	“Music Becomes the Experience”: The Utopia of Frictionless Music
	Conclusions
	References
7 The Sex Playlist: How Race and Ethnicity Mediate Musically “Composed” Sexual Self-Formation
	Introduction
	Music as Technology of the Sexual Self
	Ethno-Racial Mediations of Sex Playlists
	Conclusions
	References
8 Authenticity and Digital Popular Music Brands
	Introduction
	Music Industry in a Digital and Social Media Era
	Theorizing Authenticity in the Cultural Field
	The Authentic Brand
	Manifesting and Creating Authenticity in the Contemporary Music Industry
	Conclusions
	References
Part  III Materialities of Music Consumption
9 Listening to the Scrap: Contested Materialities of Music in 1990s China
	Introduction
	Music and Materiality
	Cut-Out: A Brief History
	The Cut-Out Pyramid
	Cut-Outs as Scrap
	Cut-Outs as Records
	Contested Materialities
	Conclusions
	References
10 Obsolete Technology? The Significance of the Cassette Format in Twenty-First-Century Japan
	Introduction
	Domestic Production: Cassettes Between the Poles of Enka and Punk
	Current Discourses on Cassettes in Japanese DIY Music Scenes
	“It Looks Very New; It Looks Very Cute”: Cassette Store Day Japan and the Visual Turn in Cassette Consumption
	Conclusions
	References
Part  IV Scenes and the Uses and Discourses of Social Media
11 “Do You Have a Moment to Talk About Vaporwave?” Technology, Memory, and Critique in the Writing on an Online Music Scene
	Introduction
	Describing Vaporwave
	Technology and Memory
	Critique
	Conclusion
	References
12 Discovering Music at Sofar Sounds: Surprise, Attachment, and the Fan–Artist Relationship
	Introduction
	A Sociology of Music Discovery?
	“All About Music”: What Happens When the Artists’ Names Disappear?
	A Blind Discovery: An Art of Being Surprised
	A Real Discovery? Sofar Sounds and the Issue of the Fan–Artist Relationship
	Conclusions
	References
13 Delicate Balances: The Roles of Amateur Concert Videos in the Galician Underground Scene
	Introduction: Videos and Underground Music Scenes
	Scene Films: From Stars to Communities
	The Galician Underground Scene
	A Reaction Against Professional Aesthetics
	Home Movies for a Balanced Representation
	Scene Videos as Promotional Tools
	Conclusions
	References
14 Cassetteboy: Music, Social Media, and the Political Comedy Mash-up
	Introduction
	Mash-Ups, Music, and Politics Online
	Discussion: Cassetteboy and British Political Media
	Conclusions
	References
Index