Accounting for Genre: How Genre Awareness and Affinity Affects Music Streaming Use



Flynn, M
(2017) Accounting for Genre: How Genre Awareness and Affinity Affects Music Streaming Use. In: Listening to music: people, practices and experiences. Open University,Milton Keynes. ISBN 9781473023208

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Abstract

The focus of this chapter is to address current debates around the impact of music streaming on music use and listening. In particular, this research explores the application of genre as a way of codifying, categorising and choosing music on music formats and digital platforms in 2015. With reference to previous research on genre, I will predominantly draw upon the work of Frith (1996), Negus (1999), Borthwick and Moy (2004), Holt (2007) and Avdeeff (2013) to apply the broad idea of genre as a fundamental organising principle in the production and consumption of music. The chapter will first provide a short history of genre’s changing relationship to digital music use (Kibby 2011, Kassabian 2013 and Nowak 2016) and place genre in the wider context of industry and technology (Sterne 2012 and Anderson 2014). This historical analysis provides a rationale for the primary research, which assesses the music use of 45 music users to ascertain, since the emergence of music streaming, the relevance of genre to the practice of choosing and listening to music. The chapter concludes by proposing that the number of genres a music user expresses an affinity for could broadly align with different attitudes toward, and ways of engaging with, music streaming.

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Date Deposited: 09 Feb 2018 15:48
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URI: https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3017841