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This collection presents a range of essays on contemporary music
distribution and consumption patterns and practices. The
contributors to the collection use a variety of theoretical and
methodological approaches, discussing the consequences and effects
of the digital distribution of music as it is manifested in
specific cultural contexts. The widespread circulation of music in
digital form has far-reaching consequences: not least for how we
understand the practices of sourcing and consuming music, the
political economy of the music industries, and the relationships
between format and aesthetics. Through close empirical engagement
with a variety of contexts and analytical frames, the contributors
to this collection demonstrate that the changes associated with
networked music are always situationally specific, sometimes
contentious, and often unexpected in their implications. With
chapters covering topics such as the business models of streaming
audio, policy and professional discourses around the changing
digital music market, the creative affordances of format and
circulation, and local practices of accessing and engaging with
music in a range of distinct cultural contexts, the book presents
an overview of the themes, topics and approaches found in current
social and cultural research on the relations between music and
digital technology.
This collection presents a range of essays on contemporary music
distribution and consumption patterns and practices. The
contributors to the collection use a variety of theoretical and
methodological approaches, discussing the consequences and effects
of the digital distribution of music as it is manifested in
specific cultural contexts. The widespread circulation of music in
digital form has far-reaching consequences: not least for how we
understand the practices of sourcing and consuming music, the
political economy of the music industries, and the relationships
between format and aesthetics. Through close empirical engagement
with a variety of contexts and analytical frames, the contributors
to this collection demonstrate that the changes associated with
networked music are always situationally specific, sometimes
contentious, and often unexpected in their implications. With
chapters covering topics such as the business models of streaming
audio, policy and professional discourses around the changing
digital music market, the creative affordances of format and
circulation, and local practices of accessing and engaging with
music in a range of distinct cultural contexts, the book presents
an overview of the themes, topics and approaches found in current
social and cultural research on the relations between music and
digital technology.
"Zombies in the Academy" taps into the current popular fascination
with zombies and brings together scholars from a range of fields,
including cultural and communication studies, sociology, film
studies, and education, to give a critical account of the
political, cultural, and pedagogical state of the university
through the metaphor of zombiedom. The contributions to this volume
argue that the increasing corporatization of the academy--an
environment emphasizing publication, narrow research, and the
vulnerability of the tenure system-- is creating a crisis in higher
education best understood through the language of zombie
culture--the undead, contagion, and plague, among others. "Zombies
in the Academy "presents essays from a variety of scholars and
creative writers who present an engaging and entertaining appeal
for serious recognition of the conditions of contemporary
humanities teaching, culture, and labor practices.
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