[Air-l] 'cybersounds' - new essay collection

[Mike Ayers]

Greetings AoIR folks-- thought some of you might be interested in checking 
out this new collection i just wrapped-   Let me know if you'd like more 
information!   anywho, its on amazon, peter lang direct, ie. the usual 
suspects.

cheers,
Mike
michael.ayers at manhattan.edu

Cybersounds: Essays on Virtual Music Culture (Michael D. Ayers, editor)
Peter Lang Press, January 2006
Digital Formations Series (Series Editor, Steve Jones)

Michael D. Ayers: Introduction -
1.Elizabeth A. Buchanan: Deafening Silence: Music and the Emerging Climate 
of Access and Use -
2.Markus Giesler: Cybernetic Gift Giving and Social Drama: A Netnography of 
the Napster File-Sharing Community -
3.Andrew Whelan: Do U Produce?: Subcultural Capital and Amateur Musicianship 
in Peer-to-Peer Networks -
4.Andre Pinard/Sean Jacobs: Building a Virtual Diaspora: Hip-Hop in 
Cyberspace -
5.Adam Haupt: The Technology of Subversion: From Digital Sampling in Hip-Hop 
to the MP3 Revolution -
6.Michael D. Ayers: The Cyberactivism of a Dangermouse -
7.Daragh O'Reilly/Kathy Doherty: Music B(r)ands Online and Constructing 
Community: The Case of New Model Army -
8.Chris Anderton: Beating the Bootleggers: Fan Creativity, «Lossless» Audio 
Trading, and Commercial Opportunities -
9.Gabriele Cosentino: «Hacking» the iPod: A Look inside Apple's Portable 
Music Player -
10.Trace Reddell: The Social Pulse of Telharmonics: Functions of Networked 
Sound and Interactive Webcasting -
11.John Ryan/Michael Hughes: Breaking the Decision Chain: The Fate of 
Creativity in the Age of Self-Production -
12.Jonathan Sterne: Afterword: On the Future of Music.

Some advance thoughts:

The writers offer an illuminating cybersurfing safari out to the point break 
where art, commerce, community, self, and politics converge. The result is a 
smooth ride to a fresh new shoreline of twenty-first century cultural 
criticism. The essays are comprehensive, well crafted, theoretically 
informed, empirically grounded, loud, clear, alive, and kicking.» (Donna 
Gaines, sociologist/journalist; Author of 'Teenage Wasteland' and 'A Misfits 
Manifesto')
«'Cybersounds' is terrific. It takes readers inside the many sorts of 
cyberscenes now being developed by inventive people creatively using the 
Internet to build community among music makers and fans. We see the 
emergence of new means of controlling entry, norms of communication, 
identity formation, politics, and ethics in these worlds where flesh and 
machine begin to merge. These emergent scenes are set in the context of the 
technologies, laws, and business models that make them possible and 
shape/stunt their growth, and we learn of the musical creativity lost as 
well as the creativity gained in the process.» (Richard A. Peterson, 
Co-Editor with Andy Bennett of 'Music Scenes: Local, Translocal and 
Virtual')