Networked Music Cultures

Raphaël Nowak is a cultural sociologist interested in issues of music consumption and technologies. He currently teaches in popular music, social theory and cultural sociology at the University of Bristol, UK. He published his first manuscript Consuming Music in the Digital Age in 2015 with Palgrave Macmillan.  Andrew Whelan is a sociologist based at the University of Wollongong in New South Wales, Australia. He has published previously on digital media, Australian media regulation policy, ‘extreme’ music and underground electronic music subcultures, peer-to-peer file-sharing and online interaction about music.

Editors' Introduction – Raphaël Nowak and Andrew Whelan.- 1.The People’s Mixtape: Peer-to-Peer File Sharing Without the Internet in Contemporary Cuba – Tom Astley.- 2.Musica Analytica: The Datafication of Listening – Robert Prey.- 3.The Legacy of Napster – Matthew David.- 4.Streaming Music in Japan: Corporate Cultures as Determinants of Listening Practice – Noriko Manabe.- 5.Making Sense of Acquiring Music in Mexico City – Víctor Ávila-Torres.- 6.Reading Songs, Experiencing Music: Co-creation, Materiality and Expertise in Beck's Song Reader – Antoni Roig and Gemma San Cornelio.- 7.The Digital Music Boundary Object – Raphaël Nowak and Andrew Whelan.- 8.‘A Step Back to the Dark Ages of the Music Industry’: Experiencing the Democratization of Record Production and Discourses on Spotify in the Finnish Music Industries Communication Group 'Kuka Mitä Häh?' – Juho Kaitajärvi-Tiekso.- 9.Off the Charts: The Implications of Incorporating Streaming Data into the Charts – Steve Collins and Pat O’Grady.- 10.Rethinking the Digital Playlist: Mixtapes, Nostalgia, and Emotionally Durable Design – Kieran Fenby-Hulse.- 11.A Song for Ireland? Policy Discourse and Wealth Generation in the Music Industry in the Context of Digital Upheavals and Economic Crisis – Jim Rogers and Anthony Cawley.- 12.Pachelbel this Ain’t: Mashups and Canon (De)formation – Anthony Cushing .- 13.Streaming the Everyday Life – Anja Nylund Hagen 

“Authors cover a vast range of topics from music industry practices to the impact that digital music distribution and consumption has on culture and society. … The book would generally appeal to researchers and academics in the study of cultural studies and sociology, and would serve as useful research for under/postgraduate students as well as set reading texts in degree programmes.” (Shara Rambarran, Volume!, Vol. 15 (1), 2018)