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The Digital Evolution of Live Music
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The Digital Evolution of Live Music

by Angela Jones, Rebecca Jane Bennett
July 2015
Beginner to intermediate
144 pages
5h 49m
English
Chandos Publishing
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Dead music in live music culture

F. Cull

Abstract

Research on new listening practices often focuses on the impact they have on the framework of record companies and their commercial and legal concerns. However, this is not the only notable effect of the increasingly digital nature of music. This chapter explores the ways in which the digitalization of music collections alters the meaning of musical artifacts and, in turn, collector culture. It focuses on how digital music formats have re-energized the meaning of “dead” music, making it “live” again. ‘Digital culture has made it possible for diggers and scroungers of music to collect it in new and varied ways, with more ability to access, consume, share and discuss the music.’ Field recordings made ...

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