The Cambridge Companion to Music in Digital Culture

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The impact of digital technologies on music has been overwhelming: since the commercialisation of these technologies in the early 1980s, both the practice of music and thinking about it have changed almost beyond all recognition. From the rise of digital music making to digital dissemination, these changes have attracted considerable academic attention across disciplines,within, but also beyond, established areas of academic musical research. Through chapters by scholars at the forefront of research and shorter 'personal takes' from knowledgeable practitioners in the field, this Companion brings the relationship between digital technology and musical culture alive by considering both theory and practice. It provides a comprehensive and balanced introduction to the place of music within digital culture as a whole, with recurring themes and topics that include music and the Internet, social networking and participatory culture, music recommendation systems, virtuality, posthumanism, surveillance, copyright, and new business models for music production.

Nicholas Cook is Emeritus Professor at the University of Cambridge. He is the author of Music: A Very Short Introduction (1998) and Music as Creative Practice (2018), and won the SMT's Wallace Berry Award for The Schenker Project (2007). Monique M. Ingalls is Assistant Professor of Music at Baylor University, Texas. Author of Singing the Congregation (2018), she is Series Editor for Routledge's Congregational Music Studies Series and co-organiser of the biennial international conference 'Christian Congregational Music: Local and Global Perspectives'. David Trippett is Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Music, University of Cambridge. Author of Wagner's Melodies (Cambridge, 2013), his wide-ranging research has received the Einstein and Lockwood Prizes (American Musicological Society), the Nettl Prize (Society for Ethnomusicology), and an American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP) Deems Taylor award.