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

Contents

• 1.  Continuity and Change in the Relationship between Popular Music, Culture, and Technology: An Introduction.-
• 2.  Music Scenes as Infrastructures: From Live Venues to Algorithmic Data.-
• 3.  From Music Scenes to Musicalized Networks: A Critical Perspective on Digitalization.-
• 4.  Niche Underground: Media, Technology, and the Reproduction of Underground Cultural Capital.-
• 5.  The Relentless Rise of the Poptimist Omnivore: Taste, Symbolic Power, and the Digitization of the Music Industries.-
• 6.  Frictionless Platforms, Frictionless Music: The Utopia of Streaming in Music Industry Press Narratives.-
• 7.  The Sex Playlist: How Race and Ethnicity Mediate Musically “Composed” Sexual Self-formation.-
• 8.  Authenticity and Digital Popular Music Brands.-
• 9.  Listening to the Scrap: Contested Materialities of Music in 1990s China.-
• 10.  Obsolete Technology? The Significance of the Cassette Format in Twenty-First Century Japan.-
• 11.  “Do You Have a Moment to Talk About Vaporwave?” Technology, Memory, and Critique in the Writing on an Online Music Scene.-
• 12.  Discovering Music at Sofar Sounds: Surprise, Attachment, and the Fan-Artist Relationship.-
• 13.  Delicate Balances: The Roles of Amateur Concert Videos in the Galician Underground Scene.-
• 14.  Cassetteboy: Music, Social Media, and the Political Comedy Mash-up.