[Air-L] My new book is out now!

[Scott MacLeod]

Hi Nancy, and Air-L,

Thanks for sharing about your new book, Nancy -
https://twitter.com/nancybaym/status/1016672686204911616 - and nice to meet
you at Stanford in April 2017 -
https://events.stanford.edu/events/679/67971/ - (see, too -
https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/857730839488020480)

I just retweeted about your book and free chapter to
1 World University and School
https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch?lang=en
2 the Academic Press at World University and School
https://twitter.com/WUaSPress

Here's a related wiki subject at WUaS -
https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Crowdsourcing
(accessible from - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Subjects )


Thanks!

Best, Scott
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On Tue, Jul 10, 2018 at 11:30 AM, Nancy Baym <baym at microsoft.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I'm happy to share the news that my new book, Playing to the Crowd:
> Musicians, Audiences, and the Intimate Work of Connection is now officially
> out from NYU Press.  I would appreciate your help spreading the word and,
> if you are so inclined, giving it online ratings.
>
> Here is the website for it where you can get a PDF of the introduction and
> order it direct from the press:  https://nyupress.org/books/9781479821587/
>
> Here is its chapter about audiences which was republished today in WIRED:
> https://www.wired.com/story/book-excerpt-playing-to-the-crowd/
>
> Here is a Spotify playlist I made to go with it so you can hear the music
> I write about: https://open.spotify.com/user/popgurl/playlist/
> 51Jo8zp4xSF2Ew8xwRZcTz?si=l7u3AxFZTomGRJvZFLsZFA
>
> And last but not least, here are the blurbs and an early review:
>
> *         "Nancy K. Baym's Playing to the Crowd is a major advance in our
> understanding of new media, music and audiences. Through careful
> ethnographic and historical work, Baym offers a definitive reception
> history of popular music as it went online. She also offers a
> transformative theory of music in the age of social media. Methodologically
> rich, beautifully written, and full of great storytelling, Playing to the
> Crowd explains the novel aspects of our emergent online environment, all
> while linking it to music as a cultural practice that transcends any one
> context, and insisting that we understand online relationships as
> fundamentally human relationships. It will change the way you think about
> music, technology and people."
>
> -Jonathan Sterne, author of MP3: The Meaning of a Format
>
> *         "Nancy K. Baym was researching the impact of emerging
> technologies and music when most of us did not have the foresight to
> anticipate the changing music landscape. This is not her first pioneering
> work, and it certainly won't be her last, but it is, as always, fun and
> intriguing. An innovative wordsmith and an engaging storyteller, Baym
> explains how musicians transition from technologies designed to render them
> remote deities to those that invite them to be irrevocably intimate. Her
> observations carry weight and her interpretations are timely and timeless.
> She is a sharp researcher with a curious mind-the type that unfailingly
> seduces, educates and inspires you with their writing."
>
> -Zizi Papacharissi, University of Illinois at Chicago
>
> *         "Baym's enthusiasm and experience makes this academic study
> accessible to professional musicians as well as musicology and
> communication scholars."
>
> -Library Journal
>
>
>
> Thanks!
>
> Nancy
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