David Rowell

The Endless Refrain (eBook, ePUB)

Memory, Nostalgia, and the Threat to New Music

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A veteran music journalist illustrates how culture has recycled music from the past In The Endless Refrain, former Washington Post writer and editor David Rowell goes deep into the psychology of the average listener - as well as the algorithms that function as today's tastemakers - to explore the devastating effects of technology run amok on musicians and fans alike. Making an incisive analysis of the economic and technological forces behind the rise of streaming services like Spotify and iTunes, Rowell examines how contemporary currents of music consumption and production shut the doors on the organic creation of new music and trapped us in a whirlpool of repetition and stale nostalgia. Combining personal memoir, interviews, industry research, and good old-fashioned critical passion, Rowell's book is a pungent indictment of a music culture gone awry, crippled by nostalgia and subverted by the sinister hive minds of the internet.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Melville House
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. November 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781685891404
• Artikelnr.: 69964498

Autorenporträt

David Rowell worked as an editor and writer at the Washington Post for nearly 25 years. He has taught literary journalism at American University and is currently a senior editor at the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists. He lives just outside of Chapel Hill, North Carolina. The Endless Refrain is his third book.

Inhaltsangabe

The Endless Refrain: Memory, Nostalgia, and the Threat to New Music
David Rowell
 
Opening Act
The Songs Remain the Same – how public music became a loop of repetition
and familiarity
Side One
All Things Must Pass. But When? The age of the golden oldie … and beyond
Side Two
How Old Music Became New Again – licensing, content, the Internet, and the
weaponization of copyright
Side Three
It Goes On and On and On and On – how nostalgia propagates itself through
recursion
Side Four
Journey, Tribute Bands, and the World They Made – on the road with the
weirdest people in music 
Side Five
OK Computer? – the rise of the algorithm and digital curation
Side Six
On the Road with the Dead – the rise of hologram performers and the future
of re-animated undead music
Coda
Where Do We Go? – how we can reclaim new music in its glory and
rebelliousness for a new generation