Spotification of Popular Culture in the Field of Popular Communication

<p>This edited collection considers various meanings of the Spotification of music and other media. Specifically it replies to the editor’s call to address the changes in media cultures and industries accompanying the transition to streaming media and media services. Streaming media services have become part of daily life all over the world with Spotify in particular inheriting and reconfiguring characteristics of older ways of publishing distributing and consuming media.</p><p>The contributors look to the broader community of music media and cultural researchers to spell out some of the implications of the Spotification of music and popular culture. These include changes in personal media consumption and production educational processes and the work of media industries. Interdisciplinary scholarship on commercial digital distribution is needed more than ever to illuminate the qualitative changes to production distribution and consumption accompanying streaming music and television. </p><p>This book represents the latest research and theory on the conversion of mass markets for recorded music to streaming services.</p>