Popular Music in the Post-Digital Age

[This book] does work of interest to historians of technology, 'thinking across' categories of technology, society, and culture, and dwelling on the historical specificity of each. * Technology and Culture * A timely addition to music and cultural scholarship because it raises a multitude of important questions concerning ways in which a highly marketized and commodified popular music industry might just be able to find its way through the neoliberal fog. * Leonardo Reviews * Barna and Magaudda provide two good examples of how, by following the actors themselves as they envision a future for music, grope and sketch the contours of the worlds to come, it is possible to think about them in an original way. * Volume! The French Journal of Popular Music Studies * Music industry is in a condition of permanent flux driven by music's seamless adaptation to digital innovation. The key tension in music industry as a practice is that digital application does not always chime with regulated ownership of intellectual property rights in music. This is an impressive collection in which all participants have worked in a focused way to specify how music industry is transformed by digitization. In a turbulent environment, this collection exhibits staying power and will be a useful point of reference for academics and students over a prolonged period. * Michael Jones, Senior Lecturer in Music, University of Liverpool, UK, and author of The Music Industries: From Conception to Consumption (2012) * In an era of ever-expanding technological possibility and pace, time is an invaluable and irreplaceable resource. As such, how we listen and to what we listen becomes a nuanced and important question about how we understand each other and our relationship to the places we live. Popular Music in the Post-Digital Age provocatively explores this from multiple perspectives and ideas, asking critical questions about the continued evolution and role of one of humankind's most expressive and important languages - the language of music. * Burke Jam, Sound Artist, Composer, and Director of Digital Facilities at Portland State University, USA * This is an important contribution to the growing literature on the present era of music, its practitioners and consumers, not least because of the international breadth of its coverage. * Dave Laing, Research Fellow, Institute of Popular Music, University of Liverpool, UK *