Overview
- 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
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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.
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Front Matter
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Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Mary Beth Ray is Assistant Professor of Communication & Media Studies at Plymouth State University in Plymouth, NH, USA.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Digital Connectivity and Music Culture
Book Subtitle: Artists and Accomplices
Authors: Mary Beth Ray
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-68291-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-68290-7Published: 18 October 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-88577-3Published: 15 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-68291-4Published: 02 October 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 124
Topics: Culture and Technology, Digital/New Media, Music, Popular Culture , Media and Communication