My Jazz World: The Rise and Fall of a Digital Utopia
Barber, Simon (2018) My Jazz World: The Rise and Fall of a Digital Utopia. In: The Routledge Companion to Jazz Studies. Routledge Music Companions . Routledge, New York, pp. 455-464. ISBN 9781138231160
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This chapter presents a study of an online community organised around sharing digital versions of hard-to-find jazz records. Drawing on the political economy of file-sharing, and specifically gift economies, I examine how and why tastemakers in such communities produce, prepare and distribute music, and the rituals of reward and reciprocation involved. I use the imagined perfection of a ‘digital utopia’ to interrogate the discourses of fans, artists and critics as tensions are revealed between the value of ‘MP3 blogs’ as venues for taste-making and as archives, versus the ethical, moral and industrial complexities they engender for rights owners and other vested interests.
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| Subjects: | CAH24 - media, journalism and communications > CAH24-01 - media, journalism and communications > CAH24-01-05 - media studies CAH25 - design, and creative and performing arts > CAH25-02 - performing arts > CAH25-02-02 - music |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Arts, Design and Media > Birmingham School of Media | ||||
| Depositing User: | Simon Barber | ||||
| Date Deposited: | 11 Mar 2019 09:35 | ||||
| Last Modified: | 20 Mar 2023 16:17 | ||||
| URI: | https://www.open-access.bcu.ac.uk/id/eprint/7172 |
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