Cybersounds

Contents: Michael D. Ayers: Introduction – Elizabeth A. Buchanan: Deafening Silence: Music and the Emerging Climate of Access and Use – Markus Giesler: Cybernetic Gift Giving and Social Drama: A Netnography of the Napster File-Sharing Community – Andrew Whelan: Do U Produce?: Subcultural Capital and Amateur Musicianship in Peer-to-Peer Networks – Andre Pinard/Sean Jacobs: Building a Virtual Diaspora: Hip-Hop in Cyberspace – Adam Haupt: The Technology of Subversion: From Digital Sampling in Hip-Hop to the MP3 Revolution – Michael D. Ayers: The Cyberactivism of a Dangermouse – Daragh O’Reilly/Kathy Doherty: Music B(r)ands Online and Constructing Community: The Case of New Model Army – Chris Anderton: Beating the Bootleggers: Fan Creativity, «Lossless» Audio Trading, and Commercial Opportunities – Gabrielle Consentino: «Hacking» the iPod: A Look inside Apple’s Portable Music Player – Trace Reddell: The Social Pulse of Telharmonics: Functions of Networked Sound and Interactive Webcasting – John Ryan/Michael Hughes: Breaking the Decision Chain: The Fate of Creativity in the Age of Self-Production – Jonathan Sterne: Afterword: On the Future of Music.