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This is the most comprehensive study to date of the rich popular music scene in contemporary China. Focusing on the city of Beijing and drawing upon extensive fieldwork, China's New Voices shows that during the 1980's and 1990's, rock and pop music, combined with new technologies and the new market economy, have enabled marginalized groups to achieve a new public voice that is often independent of the state.

China - Civilization - 1976-. --- Popular music. --- Popular music-- Social aspects-- China. --- Popular music --- Social aspects --- Political aspects --- China --- Civilization

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"Streaming Music examines how the Internet has become integrated in contemporary music use, by focusing on streaming as a practice and a technology for music consumption. The backdrop to this enquiry is the digitization of society and culture, where the music industry has undergone profound disruptions, and where music streaming has altered listening modes and meanings of music in everyday life. The objective of Streaming Music is to shed light on what these transformations mean for listeners, by looking at their adaptation in specific cultural contexts, but also by considering how online music platforms and streaming services guide music listeners in specific ways. Drawing on case studies from Moscow and Stockholm, and providing analysis of Spotify, VK and YouTube as popular but distinct sites for music, Streaming Music discusses, through a qualitative, cross-cultural, study, questions around music and value, music sharing, modes of engaging with music, and the way that contemporary music listening is increasingly part of mobile, automated and computational processes. Offering a nuanced perspective on these issues, it adds to research about music and digital media, shedding new light on music cultures as they appear today. As such, this volume will appeal to scholars of media, sociology and music with interests in digital technologies."--Provided by publisher.

Popular music - Social aspects --- Streaming audio - Social aspects --- Music and the Internet --- Popular music --- Streaming audio --- Music and the Internet. --- Social aspects.

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Despite the growth of digital media, traditional FM radio airplay still remains the essential way for musicians to achieve commercial success. "Climbing the Charts" examines how songs rise, or fail to rise, up the radio airplay charts. Looking at the relationships between record labels, tastemakers, and the public, Gabriel Rossman develops a clear picture of the roles of key players and the gatekeeping mechanisms in the commercial music industry. Along the way, he explores its massive inequalities, debunks many popular misconceptions about radio stations' abilities to dictate hits, and shows how a song diffuses throughout the nation to become a massive success. Contrary to the common belief that Clear Channel sees every sparrow that falls, Rossman demonstrates that corporate radio chains neither micromanage the routine decision of when to start playing a new single nor make top-down decisions to blacklist such politically inconvenient artists as the Dixie Chicks. Neither do stations imitate either ordinary peers or the so-called kingmaker radio stations who are wrongly believed to be able to make or break a single. Instead, Rossman shows that hits spread rapidly across radio because they clearly conform to an identifiable style or genre. Radio stations respond to these songs, and major labels put their money behind them through extensive marketing and promotion efforts, including the illegal yet time-honored practice of payoffs known within the industry as payola. "Climbing the Charts" provides a fresh take on the music industry and a model for understanding the diffusion of innovation

Music --- Telecommunication services --- Business policy --- Service industry --- Radio and music. --- Popular music --- Social aspects --- History and criticism. --- Popular music - Social aspects --- Popular music - History and criticism. --- Popular music. --- Sound recording industry. --- Music trade. --- Radio broadcasting. --- Diffusion of innovations.

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"Playing to the Crowd explores and explains how the rise of digital communication platforms has transformed artist-fan relationships into something more intimate. Through in-depth interviews with musicians such as the Cure, UB40, and Throwing Muses, Nancy K. Baym reveals how new media has facilitated connections through the active participation of both the artists and their devoted digital fan base. Before the rise of online sharing and user-generated content, audiences were mostly seen as undifferentiated masses, often mediated through record labels and the press. Today, musicians and fans have built more active relationships through social media, fan sites, and artist sites, giving them a new sense of intimacy, while offering artists unparalleled access to and information about their audiences. But this comes at a price. For audiences, meeting their heroes can kill the mystique. And for artists, maintaining active relationships with so many people can be labor intensive and emotionally draining. Drawing on her own rich history as a deeply connected music fan, Baym offers an entirely new approach to media culture, arguing that the work musicians put into maintaining these intimate relationships reflects the demands of the gig economy, one which requires resources and strategies that we all music come to recognize"--Publisher's description

Popular music --- Music --- Popular music fans --- Social aspects --- Performance --- Psychological aspects --- Popular music fans. --- Psychological aspects. --- Social aspects. --- Sociologie van de cultuur --- Muziek --- Sociology of culture --- Popular music - Social aspects --- Music - Performance - Psychological aspects

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En épousant les processus historiques, en les anticipant, parfois, par des expérimentations et des utopies, en cristallisant l'esprit esthétique du temps, les musiques populaires underground, profondément ancrées dans un état crépusculaire du désir et de l'individualité (du jazz au rock, en passant par le punk, le rap, le metal, ou encore, les formes traditionnelles ou urbanisées) expriment beaucoup plus que les buts de leurs créateurs, les laudations de leurs fans ou les critiques...

Politics & culture --- Politics and culture --- Politiek en cultuur --- Politique et culture --- Popular music --- Right and left (Political science) in music. --- Musique populaire --- Droite et gauche (Science politique) dans la musique --- Social aspects. --- Aspect social --- History and criticism --- Music --- Social aspects --- Semiotics --- Right and left (Political science) in music --- Popular music - Social aspects