Music Streaming around the World
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Music Streaming around the World

  1. 272 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Music Streaming around the World

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Music streaming platforms such as Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube, and those offered by Chinese web giant Tencent are now central to everyday musical activity across much of the world, with enormous ramifications for musical culture in modern societies. Bringing together case studies from twelve countries, Music Streaming around the World provides the first international account of how streaming is shaping music culture today by considering the implications of streaming platforms for the production, distribution, and consumption of recorded music around the globe.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Imprint
  3. Subvention
  4. Title
  5. Copyright
  6. Contents
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Contributors
  9. 1. The Global Spread of Music Streaming
  10. 2. Platformization and the Recording Industry in Kenya
  11. 3. Music Streaming, Platform Labor, and Intermediaries
  12. 4. Charting Anonymous Hits
  13. 5. “From the Region, For the Region”
  14. 6. How Streaming Is Reshaping Latin American Music Culture
  15. 7. The Japanese Transition to Streaming Music
  16. 8. Inside Playlist Pitching
  17. 9. Changes and Continuities in the Indian Nonfilm Recorded Music Industry under Platformization
  18. 10. Independent Music Creators and Self-Releasing in China
  19. 11. If Streaming Doesn’t Pay the Bills, Will Advertising?
  20. 12. Inequity by Design
  21. 13. Streaming into the Metaverse
  22. Afterword: Music Streaming and Throwing Stones
  23. Index