[Air-L] Music Streaming Around the World - book talk online, Wednesday 8 October

[David Hesmondhalgh]

Hello everyone, a group of us will be discussing a new book I've edited, Music Streaming Around the World, next Wednesday 8 October at 5.30pm US Eastern Time, as part of the Popular Music Books in Process series, which takes place online via Zoom. Details of the talk are below.
The book is published on 21 October by University of California Press, and will be available open access or for purchase in paperback: https://www.ucpress.edu/books/music-streaming-around-the-world/paper
I'm informed that if you'd like to attend our talk, you need to write to Eric Weisbard eric.weisbard at gmail.com<mailto:eric.weisbard at gmail.com> to request the Zoom link, which Eric circulates in advance of the session (this is to avoid Zoom-bombing). You'll also join the mailing list for this excellent series: https://iaspm-us.wildapricot.org/Popular-Music-Books-in-Process-Series
The start time is rather late for Europe (11.30pm Central European Time, and 10.30pm British Summer Time) and very early in Asia (5.30am in China) but if you are interested in joining, please write to Eric as soon as possible.
I hope you can join us.
Kind regards, Dave Hesmondhalgh


Music Streaming Around the World - David Hesmondhalgh, Raquel Campos Valverde, Shuwen Qu and Zhongwei (Mabu) Li
This talk brings together members of the MUSICSTREAM music project based at the University of Leeds (UK) to discuss a new book, Music Streaming Around the World, about to be published by University of California Press. David Hesmondhalgh will give a brief overview of the collection, and of his chapter on how streaming fits into the long history of capitalism and colonialism in the realm of music. Shuwen Qu (Stella) will discuss her work on how short video platforms have transformed Chinese music production. Raquel Campos Valverde will discuss her chapter on the problematic implications of the taxonomies used by music streaming platforms. Finally, Zhongwei "Mabu" Li will summarise his history of how platformization has impacted independent Chinese musicians. (Qu and Li are discussing chapters co-authored with D. Bondy Kaye Valdovinos, who is unable to attend).

Links:
The MUSICSTREAM research project<https://musicstreamproject.com/>
The book: Music Streaming Around the World<https://www.ucpress.edu/flyer/books/music-streaming-around-the-world/paper> (available open access and in print from 21 October)
Bios:
David Hesmondhalgh is Professor of Media, Music and Culture at the University of Leeds. His books include Creative Labour (2010), Why Music Matters (Wiley, 2013) and The Cultural Industries (5th edition to be published in January 2026).
Qu Shuwen (Stella) is an Associate Professor at Jinan University and Co-Investigator on MUSICSTREAM. Her works focus on Chinese music industries and popular music culture, and she is currently working on a monograph on pan-entertainment music streaming in China.
Zhongwei (Mabu) Li is a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow on the MUSICSTREAM project, based at the University of Leeds. His work focuses mainly on the relationship between music streaming in China and the longer-term history of music, technology and culture in that country.
Raquel Campos Valverde is a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow on the MUSICSTREAM project. Her work focuses on software governance and cultural inequality in streaming platforms. She is currently working on a monograph on the ideologies of discovery in music streaming.


David Hesmondhalgh<https://ahc.leeds.ac.uk/media/staff/297/professor-david-hesmondhalgh> (he/him)
Professor of Media, Music and Culture, University of Leeds

Links to recent publications: https://linktr.ee/davidhesmondhalgh

Principal Investigator, MUSICSTREAM: Music Culture in the Age of Streaming, funded by European Research Council, 2021 to 2026:
https://musicstreamproject.com/