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Zusatztext At last we have a substantial yet comprehensive study of the myriad of ways in which music and YouTube intertwine. YouTube and Music contributes vital knowledge on viral music videos, contemporary fandom and the platform’s exceptional communicative power. As YouTube’s platform approaches its 20th year, this timely, detailed and diverse collection gathers together today’s most cutting-edge research on YouTube and music, serving unique analyses of YouTube’s transmediality and gatekeeping practices. The volume benefits from a genuine breadth in perspectives, with contributors representing a wide array of disciplines as well as geographical regions making it essential reading for scholars in popular music, sound studies, media studies and beyond. Informationen zum Autor Holly Rogers is Professor of Music and Director of Research at Goldsmiths, University of London, UK, where she runs the MA Music (Audiovisual Cultures). She is author of Sounding the Gallery: Video and the Rise of Art-Music (2013) and co-author of Studying Twentieth-Century Music in the West (2022). She has edited several books on audiovisual culture, including Music and Sound in Documentary Film (2014), The Music and Sound of Experimental Film (2017), Transmedia Directors: Artistry, Industry and New Audiovisual Aesthetics (Bloomsbury, 2019), Cybermedia (Bloomsbury, 2021), YouTube and Music (Bloomsbury, 2022) and Remediating Sound (Bloomsbury, 2023). Holly is one of the founding editors for Bloomsbury book series New Approaches to Sound, Music and Media and the Goldsmiths journal “Sonic Scope: New Approaches to Audiovisual Culture”.. Joana Freitas is a PhD candidate in Musicology at the School of Social Sciences and Humanities of the NOVA University of Lisbon, Portugal, with a FCT PhD Scholarship (SFRH/BD/139120/2018). She is an integrated researcher of the Centre for the Study of the Sociology and Aesthetics of Music (CESEM) and a member of the Group of Critical Theory and Communication (GTCC), researching on video game music and audiovisual media. João Francisco Porfírio is currently a PhD candidate in Musicology at NOVA FCSH, Portugal, and a FCT PhD grant holder (SFRH/BD/136264/2018). He completed his Master's in Musical Arts at the same institution. He is a researcher at CESEM, in the Group of Critical Theory and Communication (GTCC) where he develops research on issues related to ambient music and soundscapes of domestic everyday life. Klappentext YouTube has afforded new ways of documenting, performing and circulating musical creativity. This first sustained exploration of YouTube and music shows how record companies, musicians and amateur users have embraced YouTube's potential to promote artists, stage performances, build artistic (cyber)identity, initiate interactive composition, refresh music pedagogy, perform fandom, influence musical tourism and soundtrack our everyday lives. Speaking from a variety of perspectives, musicologists, film scholars, philosophers, new media theorists, cultural geographers and psychologists use case studies to situate YouTube as a vital component of contemporary musical culture. This book works together with its companion text Remediating Sound: Repeatable Culture, YouTube and Music. Vorwort The first sustained investigation into the culture of YouTube content creation and consumption Zusammenfassung PROSE AWARDS MUSIC AND PERFORMING ARTS FINALIST 2024YouTube has afforded new ways of documenting, performing and circulating musical creativity. This first open access sustained exploration of YouTube and music shows how record companies, musicians and amateur users have embraced YouTube’s potential to promote artists, stage performances, build artistic (cyber)identity, initiate interactive composition, refresh music pedagogy, perform fandom, influence ...
