[Air-L] Music and Digital Media A planetary anthropology

[Joly MacFie]

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Anthropology has neglected the study of music. *Music and Digital Media* shows
how and why this should be redressed. It does so by enabling music to
expand the horizons of digital anthropology, demonstrating how the field
can build interdisciplinary links to music and sound studies, digital/media
studies, and science and technology studies.

*Music and Digital Media* is the first comparative ethnographic study of
the impact of digital media on music worldwide. It offers a radical and
lucid new theoretical framework for understanding digital media through
music, showing that music is today where the promises and problems of the
digital assume clamouring audibility. The book contains ten chapters, eight
of which present comprehensive original ethnographies; they are bookended
by an authoritative introduction and a comparative postlude. Five chapters
address popular, folk, art and crossover musics in the global South and
North, including Kenya, Argentina, India, Canada and the UK. Three chapters
bring the digital experimentally to the fore, presenting pioneering
ethnographies of an extra-legal peer-to-peer site and the streaming
platform Spotify, a series of prominent internet-mediated music genres, and
the first ethnography of a global software package, the interactive music
platform Max.

The book is unique in bringing ethnographic research on popular, folk, art
and crossover musics from the global North and South into a comparative
framework on a large scale, and creates an innovative new paradigm for
comparative anthropology. It shows how music enlarges anthropology while
demanding to be understood with reference to classic themes of
anthropological theory.



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