Digital Connectivity and Music Culture - Artists and Accomplices

This book explores how the rise of widely available digital technology impacts the way music is produced, distributed, promoted, and consumed, with a specific focus on the changing relationship between artists and audiences. Through in-depth interviewing, focus group interviewing, and discourse analysis, this study demonstrates how digital technology has created a closer, more collaborative, fluid, and multidimensional relationship between artist and audience. Artists and audiences are simultaneously engaged with music through technology-and technology through music-while negotiating personal and social aspects of their musical lives. In light of consistent, active engagement, rising co-production, and collaborative community experience, this book argues we might do better to think of the audience as accomplices to the artist.

List of contents

1. Introduction.- 2. Artist.- 3. Audience.- 4. Music Culture & Digital Technology.- 5. Artists & Accomplices.

About the author

Mary Beth Ray is Assistant Professor of Communication & Media Studies at Plymouth State University in Plymouth, NH, USA.

Summary

Demonstrates why there is cause for both concern and celebration at the contemporary transitional, transformative moment in music culture
Explores the creation and maintenance of mutually beneficial, revenue generating music communities between artists and audiences

Connects research on music culture in the digital age to communication and media studies, creative industries, co-production, qualitative research methods, online community and social networks, critical cultural studies, and popular music and society

Product details

• Authors: Mary Beth Ray
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2018
• EAN: 9783319885773
• ISBN: 978-3-31-988577-3
• No. of pages: 124
• Dimensions: 149 mm x 212 mm x 9 mm
• Weight: 187 g
• Illustrations: X, 124 p.
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Labour, economic and industrial sociology; Musik, Populäre Kultur, C, Medienwissenschaften, Music, Technology, Media Studies, Culture, Popular Culture, Digital Media, Communication, Media and Communication, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Media studies: internet, digital media & society, Digital and New Media, Digital/New Media, Culture and Technology