First off, good luck with your presentation and safe journey getting there.

There have been several performances over the years I wish I could have seen live. Sometimes a taping or net broadcast can only do a certain level of justice to a live performance. Tapings and online broadcasts fail to capture the energy and atmosphere.

Scheduled Time: Fri, May 23 – 1:30pm – 2:45pm Building/Room: Le Centre Sheraton / Salon 3

When Music Goes Online: Dissemination, Acquisition, Meaning, and Place

Session Participants:

Constructing an International Collaborative Music Network: Swedish Indie Fans and the Internet

*Nancy Baym (U of Kansas), *Robert Burnett (Karlstad U)

Local Identity and Independent Music Scenes in the Internet Age

*Holly Kruse (U of Tulsa)

Distribution, Digitalisation, and Beyond

*Henrik Bødker (Aarhus U)

Music Acquisition, Technology, and Subjectivity

*Marj Kibby (Newcastle U)

Chair: Nancy Baym (U of Kansas)

Abstract:

Digitized music can be distributed through means its producers and copyright owners may neither know of nor approve. This makes its acquisition easier than ever, yet raises wide-ranging questions concerning filtering, listening habits, place, meaning and the relative roles of music producers, listeners fans and third party intermediaries in this new sonic landscape. How do people make their choices? Who are the tastemakers? How are listening habits changed? Do music scenes lose their connections to space? These are some of the questions that will be raised in this panel, which brings together scholars from four countries (Australia, Denmark, Sweden, the United States) to examine these issues at multiple levels.