Review: Cybersounds: Essays on Virtual Music Culture

Writer, researcher, freelance song journalist and Visiting Professor during Manhattan College

Michael D. Ayers has fabricated several general experts with considerable credentials who try the new phenomenon of a Internet song revolution, wherein there has been a joining between artists, capitalism, fans, media, technology, and song itself. The outcome is an glorious compilation of essays featured in Cybersounds: Essays on Virtual Music Culture that benefaction an judicious analysis of topics that adult to now were lacking in technical sophistication in their discussions.

In bringing together these experts, these contributors have done a conspicuous job in violation down into their simple components such hot- symbol issues as a legal hurdles that approximate music and a Internet a birth and expansion of cyber communities how record is used to perplex corporate interests questions about mutation and how cyberspace has affected a way we appreciate song from a pacifist to an active role a question of energy and regulation, for as Ayers states, "music in a on-line universe has pushed a envelope" a emergence of a Apple's iPod how bands use their websites is in branding themselves and how fans correlate how song and on-line activism have come together how fans challenge a recording attention and trade their possess home done recordings of live concerts how artists and DJs work together over vast geographical spaces to emanate new kinds of music, and also how new record as digital recordings in cyberspace concede for new creativity a effects of illicit trading and counterpart to counterpart file trading, as good as a restructuring of a patterns of song distribution and consumption.

These are usually a sampling of a huge domain that this book covers and as Jonathan Sterne

one of a contributors asserts, "Cybersounds offers us an rare opportunity to simulate on song on a Internet and a state of grant about song on a Internet."

In an academically grounded though for a most partial informal presentations, this is a conspicuous collection of essays that mangle new belligerent in educating readers on a convergence of cyberculture and musicology. Moreover, interjection to these contributors a door has now been non-stop where a study of these dual disciplines has been severely advanced.

Review: Cybersounds: Essays on Virtual Music Culture