Popular Music, Technology, and the Changing Media Ecosystem

1. Continuity and Change in the Relationship between Popular Music, Culture, and Technology: An Introduction.- 2. Music Scenes as Infrastructures: From Live Venues to Algorithmic Data.- 3. From Music Scenes to Musicalized Networks: A Critical Perspective on Digitalization.- 4. Niche Underground: Media, Technology, and the Reproduction of Underground Cultural Capital.- 5. The Relentless Rise of the Poptimist Omnivore: Taste, Symbolic Power, and the Digitization of the Music Industries.- 6. Frictionless Platforms, Frictionless Music: The Utopia of Streaming in Music Industry Press Narratives.- 7. The Sex Playlist: How Race and Ethnicity Mediate Musically "Composed" Sexual Self-formation.- 8. Authenticity and Digital Popular Music Brands.- 9. Listening to the Scrap: Contested Materialities of Music in 1990s China.- 10. Obsolete Technology? The Significance of the Cassette Format in Twenty-First Century Japan.- 11. "Do You Have a Moment to Talk About Vaporwave?" Technology, Memory, and Critique in the Writing on an Online Music Scene.- 12. Discovering Music at Sofar Sounds: Surprise, Attachment, and the Fan-Artist Relationship.- 13. Delicate Balances: The Roles of Amateur Concert Videos in the Galician Underground Scene.- 14. Cassetteboy: Music, Social Media, and the Political Comedy Mash-up.