Youtube and Music: Online Culture and Everyday Life

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YouTube has afforded new ways of documenting, performing and circulating musical creativity. This first open access sustained exploration of YouTube and music shows how record companies, musicians and amateur users have embraced YouTube’s potential to promote artists, stage performances, build artistic (cyber)identity, initiate interactive composition, refresh music pedagogy, perform fandom, influence musical tourism and soundtrack our everyday lives. Speaking from a variety of perspectives, musicologists, film scholars, philosophers, new media theorists, cultural geographers and psychologists use case studies to situate YouTube as a vital component of contemporary musical culture. This book works together with its companion text Remediating Sound: Repeatable Culture, YouTube and Music.

The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by Knowledge Unlatched.

Holly Rogers is Reader in Music at Goldsmiths, University of London, UK, where she directs the MA Music (Audiovisual Cultures). She is author of Sounding the Gallery: Video and the Rise of Art-Music and Twentieth Century Music in the West, and editor of 4 collections on audiovisual topics from the music and sound of documentary and experimental film to transmedia and cybermedia. Holly is co-founding editor of this Bloomsbury book series and the journal Sonic Scope.
João Francisco Porfírio is currently a PhD candidate in Musicology at NOVA FCSH and a FCT PhD grant holder (SFRH/BD/136264/2018). He completed his Master’s in Musical Arts at the same institution. He is a researcher at CESEM, in the Group of Critical Theory and Communication (GTCC) where he develops research on issues related to ambient music and soundscapes of domestic everyday life.
Joana Freitas is a PhD candidate in Musicology at the School of Social Sciences and Humanities of the NOVA University of Lisbon, Portugal, with a FCT PhD Scholarship (SFRH/BD/139120/2018). She is an integrated researcher of the Centre for the Study of the Sociology and Aesthetics of Music (CESEM) and a member of the Group of Critical Theory and Communication (GTCC), researching on video game music and audiovisual media.