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Against the Stream: Niche Music Streaming Services and the Streaming Paradigm /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Against the Stream: Niche Music Streaming Services and the Streaming Paradigm // Ryan Blakeley.
Author:	Blakeley, Ryan,
Description:	1 electronic resource (275 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 86-02, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International86-02A.
Subject:	Music history. -
Online resource:	https://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=31488906
ISBN:	9798384012917

Against the Stream: Niche Music Streaming Services and the Streaming Paradigm /
Blakeley, Ryan,

Against the Stream: Niche Music Streaming Services and the Streaming Paradigm /Ryan Blakeley. - 1 electronic resource (275 pages)

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 86-02, Section: A.

This dissertation investigates how the streaming paradigm, established by companies such as Spotify, has transformed the business and culture of music. Drawing from media and music industry studies, I focus on niche streaming services, which target specific genres, communities, listening practices, and more. To assess how these companies differentiate themselves from their mainstream competitors both practically and ideologically, I analyze their platform design, features, and business strategies. I support my analysis with over thirty interviews conducted with streaming service stakeholders, including executives, music industry professionals, and public librarians. I argue that niche services' alternative approaches to streaming reveal concerns about the streaming paradigm engendering passive listening habits, inequitably remunerating artists, and consolidating power in tech companies.Each chapter approaches niche streaming from a distinct angle. In Chapter 1, I introduce the concept of niche ideology to describe the values and practices that many niche services adopt to distinguish themselves from their competition. I then conduct case studies of three services: Qobuz, The Van, and Catalytic Soundstream. Chapter 2 considers how streaming is affecting a single genre: classical music. I demonstrate that major platforms' metadata frameworks, listening features, and royalty models are not designed with classical music in mind. While dedicated classical streaming services address these issues, they are precarious due to their reliance on investors and competition from massive tech companies. In Chapter 3, I investigate public library streaming services, focusing on the library vendor Rabble's MUSICat service. I argue that these services are designed to cultivate local community and gesture to the potential for a streaming model that is publicly funded and non-profit. Finally, Chapter 4 shifts from consumer services to B2B (business-to-business) background music services to examine how streaming is changing background music's distribution, selection, and economics. I show that streaming may improve the efficiency of background music, but it also reifies concerns about social control, surveillance, and inequitable artist compensation. Ultimately, while most scholarship assumes the hegemony of companies like Spotify, I demonstrate that streaming remains a contested space where businesses, artists, and listeners negotiate how music can and should be listened to, monetized, and controlled.

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ISBN: 9798384012917Subjects--Topical Terms:

3342382
Music history.
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Listening habits

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