Music and Digital Media
Music and Digital Media The first comparative ethnographic study on the impact of digital media on worldwide music.Offering a radically new theoretical framework for understanding digital media…
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Music and Digital Media
The first comparative ethnographic study on the impact of digital media on worldwide music.Offering a radically new theoretical framework for understanding digital media through music, this volume redresses anthropology's frequent oversight of music as a topic of study. Music and Digital Media includes five original ethnographies spanning pop, folk, and crossover musical genres throughout Kenya, Argentina, India, Canada, and the UK. By positioning music as an expansive subject for digital anthropology, Georgina Born demonstrates how the field can build interdisciplinary links to music and sound studies, digital media studies, and science and technology studies.
A further three chapters engage experimentally with the platforms of music-making and distribution, presenting pioneering ethnographies of an extra-legal peer-to-peer site and the streaming platform Spotify, a