... “Streaming Music” considers what streaming makes of music. Drawing on theories of musical mediation developed by Georgina Born and others, this chapter examines some of the key ways that platforms mediate music. On streaming services, music is enacted as data, metadata, intellectual property...

... “Streaming Capital” examines the industrial organization of music platforms. The “multisided markets” they convene confer upon music a peculiar economic status. By ensuring that users never pay directly for music, platforms make music appear to users as if it has been decommodified, transformed...

... to provide context for its content—which has prompted scholarly criticisms about its usefulness for activism—can sometimes be politically liberating. However, the centrality of spectacle to success in YouTube’s “attention economy” means that the deaths streaming on the site generate interest from the way...

... “Streaming, Cheap Music, and Crises of Social Reproduction” reads the prominence given to mood, activity, and context-based playlists on streaming platforms through the lens of social reproduction theory. Streaming platforms cast such functional music as a tool by which users can perform certain...

... “Counterfeiting Attention in the Streaming Economy” examines the unintended effects of the platform model, as musicians and other actors have sought to turn streaming’s peculiar economic incentives and infrastructural limitations to their advantage. Three case studies are considered. One...

... The introduction to Streaming Music, Streaming Capital offers an overview of the major features of the streaming ecosystem. A key argument is that the development of streaming platforms since the late aughts provides important insights into music’s complicated relation to capitalism. Not only...

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... monetization of user attention and data. To attract the business of advertisers and data aggregators, streaming services tout the extensive access mobile music provides to the various social and physical spaces that users traverse. In addition, platforms stress the privileged insight into listeners’ psychic...