Cybersounds: Essays on Virtual Music Culture

300 Pages·2006·12.097 MB·English

by  Michael D. Ayer, Elizabeth Buchanan, Markus Giesler, Andrew Whelan, Andre Pinard, Sean Jacob, Adam Haupt, Darah O'Reilly, Chris Anderton, Gabrielle Consentino, Trace Reddell, Kathy Doherty, Jonathan Sterne, John Ryan, Michael Hughes

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Cybersounds: essays on virtual music culture / edited by Michael D. Ayers,
p. cm. — (Digital formations; v. 31)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Popular music-Social aspects. 2. Internet-Social aspects. 3. Music-
Computer network resources. I. Ayers, Michael D. II. Series.
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Contents
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction
Michael D. Ayers 1
Chapter One: Deafening Silence: Music and the Emerging
Climate of Access and Use
Elizabeth A. Buchanan 9
Chapter Two: Cybernetic Gift Giving and Social Drama:
A Netnography of the Napster File-Sharing Community
21
Markus Giesler
Chapter Three: Do U Produce?: Subcultural Capital and Amateur
Musicianship in Peer-to-Peer Networks
57
Andrew Whelan
Chapter Four: Building a Virtual Diaspora: Hip-Hop in Cyberspace
Andre Pinard and Sean Jacobs 83
Chapter Five: The Technology of Subversion:
From Digital Sampling in Hip-Hop to the MP3 Revolution
107
Adam Haupt
Chapter Six: The Cyberactivism of a Dangermouse
127
Michael D. Ayers
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Chapter Seven: Music B(r]ands Online and Constructing Community:
The Case of New Model Army
Daragh O'Reilly and Kathy Doherty 137
Chapter Eight: Beating the Bootleggers: Fan Creativity, "Lossless" Audio
Trading, and Commercial Opportunities
Chris Anderton 161
Chapter Nine: "Hacking" the iPod:
A Look inside Apple's Portable Music Player
Gabrielle Consentino 185
Chapter Ten: The Social Pulse of Telharmonics: Functions of Networked
Sound and Interactive Webcasting
Trace Reddell 209
Chapter Eleven: Breaking the Decision Chain:
The Fate of Creativity in the Age of Self-Production
John Ryan and Michael Hughes 239
Afterword: On the Future of Music
Jonathan Sterne 255
Notes 265
List of Contributors 273
Index 277