Consuming Music in the Digital Age

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-viii

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2. Introduction

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   Pages 1-13

3. The Material Modalities of Music Consumption

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   Pages 14-41

4. Music within Everyday Life in the Digital Age

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   Pages 42-68

5. Role-Normative Modes of Listening and the Affective Possibilities of Music

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   Pages 69-98

6. Music Taste as Assemblage

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   Pages 99-125

7. Rethinking the Roles of Music through Its Association with Life Narratives

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   Pages 126-150

8. Conclusion

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   Pages 151-154

9. Back Matter

   Pages 155-167

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This book addresses the issue of music consumption in the digital era of technologies. It explores how individuals use music in the context of their everyday lives and how, in return, music acquires certain roles within everyday contexts and more broadly in their life narratives.

• Music
• sociology
• music sociology
• digital age
• music technologies
• everyday life
• music listening
• music consumption
• affects
• narratives
• roles
• music taste
• music preferences
• consumption
• individual

“This book examines the various methods the youth employs when listening to music, and how music consumption via digital technologies have shaped their lives. … Nowak does a splendid job in surveying music consumption in the digital age. While the theme carries a cultural-sociological approach, the book would appeal to researchers and academics in this field (especially under/postgraduate students).” (Shara Rambarran, Volume!, Vol. 55 (1), 2018)

• Griffith University, Australia

  Raphaël Nowak

• University of Bristol, UK

  Raphaël Nowak

Raphaël Nowak is a cultural sociologist affiliated with the Griffith Center for Cultural Research, Australia and is a teaching assistant at the University of Bristol, UK.

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