I recently reviewed a book titled 'Mediated Youth Cultures: The Internet, Belonging and New Cultural Configurations', edited by Andy Bennett and Brady Robards. It's great.
You can access my review here and purchase the book here.
To paraphrase the review, the book finds that the internet plays a positive role in youth culture, and the eclectic variety of contributions from different authors sheds light on some very specific aspects of mediated youth culture. These chapters are categorised under the following headings: Online and offline identities; Engagement and creativity; and Bodies, spaces and places.
Three of the five chapters on 'Engagement and creativity' concern music. Of interest, Raphael Nowak highlights how different types of technology can complement each other, with different technologies meeting different preferences. He explains: The reception of music is currently characterised by a multiplication and coexistence of various music artefacts that all possess their own features and characteristic forms of appeal for listeners’ (p. 150).
The book, overall, comes highly recommended (in case that was not already obvious).
You can access my review here and purchase the book here.
To paraphrase the review, the book finds that the internet plays a positive role in youth culture, and the eclectic variety of contributions from different authors sheds light on some very specific aspects of mediated youth culture. These chapters are categorised under the following headings: Online and offline identities; Engagement and creativity; and Bodies, spaces and places.
Three of the five chapters on 'Engagement and creativity' concern music. Of interest, Raphael Nowak highlights how different types of technology can complement each other, with different technologies meeting different preferences. He explains: The reception of music is currently characterised by a multiplication and coexistence of various music artefacts that all possess their own features and characteristic forms of appeal for listeners’ (p. 150).
The book, overall, comes highly recommended (in case that was not already obvious).
Twauts @musicpiracyblog
References
Brown, S.C. (2015). Mediated Youth Cultures: The Internet, Belonging and New Cultural Configurations [Review of the book Mediated Youth Cultures: The Internet, Belonging and New Cultural Configurations, by A. Bennett and B. Robards (eds.)]. Popular Music, 34(2), 349-351.
Bennett, A. and Robards, B. (Eds.). (2014). Mediated Youth Cultures: The Internet, Belonging and New Cultural Configurations. Hampshire, England: Palgrave Macmillan.
Nowak, R. (2014). Understanding Everyday Uses of Musical Technologies in the Digital Age. In A. Bennett and B. Robards (Eds.), Mediated Youth Cultures: The Internet, Belonging and New Cultural Configurations (pp. 146-164). Hampshire, England: Palgrave Macmillan.
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