David Rowell

The Endless Refrain

Memory, Nostalgia, and the Threat to New Music

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Produktbeschreibung

A veteran music journalist argues that the rise of music streaming and the consolidation of digital platforms is decimating the musical landscape, with dire consequences for the future of our culture … In The Endless Refrain, former Washington Post writer and editor David Rowell lays out how commercial and cultural forces have laid waste to the cultural ecosystems that have produced decades of great American music. From the scorched-earth demonetizing of artist revenue accomplished by Spotify and its ilk to the rise of dead artists “touring” via hologram, Rowell examines how a perfect storm of conditions have drained our shared musical landscape of vitality. Combining personal memoir, intimate on-the-ground reporting, industry research, and cultural criticism, Rowell’s book is a powerful indictment of a music culture gone awry, driven by conformity and subverted by the ways the internet and media influence what we listen to and how we listen to it.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Melville House Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. November 2024
• Englisch
• Gewicht: 367g
• ISBN-13: 9781685891398
• ISBN-10: 168589139X
• Artikelnr.: 70015774

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