October 2014, v19n10

Napster, 15 years on: Rethinking digital music distribution

Special issue

Editorial: On the 15-year anniversary of Napster — Digital music as boundary object by Raphaël Nowak and Andrew Whelan

Fifteen years of ‘Utopia’: Napster and Pitchfork as technologies of democratization by David Carter and Ian Rogers

Copyright and the architecture of digital delivery by Dan L. Burk

Napster and the press: Framing music technology by Andrea L. Guzman and Steve Jones

Explaining the rise and fall of the Warez MP3 scene: An empirical account from the inside by Ard Huizing and Jan A. van der Wal

Challenging opportunities: When Indian regional music gets online by Florence Nowak

“This video is not available in Germany”: Online discourses on the German collecting society GEMA and YouTube by Philip Stade

The new romantics: Authenticity, participation and the aesthetics of piracy by Margie Borschke

Investigating the interactions between individuals and music technologies within contemporary modes of music consumption by Raphaël Nowak

“Mi wantem musik blong mi hemi blong evriwan” [“I want my music to be for everyone”]: Digital developments, copyright and music circulation in Port Vila, Vanuatu by Monika Stern

Napster and beyond: How online music can transform the dynamics of musical production and consumption in DIY subcultures by Jhessica Reia

Improvisation in the digital age: New narratives in jazz promotion and dissemination by Haftor Medbøe and José Dias

Applications and implications of digital audio databases for the field of ethnomusicology: A discussion of the CNRS - Musée de l’Homme sound archives by Stephanie Khoury and Josephine Simonnot

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