Mood machine : the rise of Spotify and the costs of the perfect playlist /
Pelly, Liz, 1990-
Mood machine : the rise of Spotify and the costs of the perfect playlist / Liz Pelly. - First One Signal Publishers/Atria Books hardcover edition. - xii, 274 pages ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-266) and index.
The bureau of piracy... -- "Saving" the music industry -- Selling lean-back listening -- The conquest of chill -- Ghost artists for hire -- The background music makers -- Streambait pop -- Listen to yourself -- Self-driving music -- Fandom as data -- Sounds for self-optimization -- Streaming as surveillance -- The first .0035 is the hardest -- An app for a boss -- Indie vibes -- This is...payola? -- The lobbyists -- The new music labor movement.
"An unsparing investigation into Spotify's origins and influence on music, weaving unprecedented reporting with incisive cultural criticism, illuminating how streaming is reshaping music for listeners and artists alike. Drawing on over one hundred interviews with industry insiders, former Spotify employees, and musicians, Mood Machine takes us to the inner workings of today's highly consolidated record business, showing what has changed as music has become increasingly playlisted, personalized, and autoplayed. Building on her years of wide-ranging reporting on streaming, music journalist Liz Pelly details the consequences of the Spotify model by examining both sides of what the company calls its two-sided marketplace: the listeners who pay with their dollars and data, and the musicians who provide the material powering it all. The music business is notoriously opaque, but here Pelly lifts the veil on major stories like streaming services filling popular playlists with low-cost stock music and the rise of new payola-like practices. For all of the inequities exacerbated by streaming, Pelly also finds hope in chronicling the artist-led fight for better models, pointing toward what must be done collectively to revalue music and create sustainable systems. A timely exploration of a company that has become synonymous with music, Mood Machine will change the way you think about and listen to music"-- Publisher's website.
9781668083512
2025385099
Spotify (Firm)
Spotify (Firm)--History
Spotify (Firm)--Influence
Spotify
Music and the Internet
Streaming audio
Sound recording industry
Music trade--Technological innovations
Musique et Internet
Audio en continu
Enregistrements sonores--Industrie
En continu (Télécommunications)
Musique--Industrie--Innovations
MUSIC / History & Criticism
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Entertainment
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Technology Studies
Music and the Internet
Streaming audio
Sound recording industry
Music trade
Streaming technology (Telecommunications)
Sound recording industry
Music trade
Telecommunication
Informational works
Documents d'information
ML3792.S685 ML74.4.S64 / P392m 2025
780.285
Mood machine : the rise of Spotify and the costs of the perfect playlist / Liz Pelly. - First One Signal Publishers/Atria Books hardcover edition. - xii, 274 pages ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-266) and index.
The bureau of piracy... -- "Saving" the music industry -- Selling lean-back listening -- The conquest of chill -- Ghost artists for hire -- The background music makers -- Streambait pop -- Listen to yourself -- Self-driving music -- Fandom as data -- Sounds for self-optimization -- Streaming as surveillance -- The first .0035 is the hardest -- An app for a boss -- Indie vibes -- This is...payola? -- The lobbyists -- The new music labor movement.
"An unsparing investigation into Spotify's origins and influence on music, weaving unprecedented reporting with incisive cultural criticism, illuminating how streaming is reshaping music for listeners and artists alike. Drawing on over one hundred interviews with industry insiders, former Spotify employees, and musicians, Mood Machine takes us to the inner workings of today's highly consolidated record business, showing what has changed as music has become increasingly playlisted, personalized, and autoplayed. Building on her years of wide-ranging reporting on streaming, music journalist Liz Pelly details the consequences of the Spotify model by examining both sides of what the company calls its two-sided marketplace: the listeners who pay with their dollars and data, and the musicians who provide the material powering it all. The music business is notoriously opaque, but here Pelly lifts the veil on major stories like streaming services filling popular playlists with low-cost stock music and the rise of new payola-like practices. For all of the inequities exacerbated by streaming, Pelly also finds hope in chronicling the artist-led fight for better models, pointing toward what must be done collectively to revalue music and create sustainable systems. A timely exploration of a company that has become synonymous with music, Mood Machine will change the way you think about and listen to music"-- Publisher's website.
9781668083512
2025385099
Spotify (Firm)
Spotify (Firm)--History
Spotify (Firm)--Influence
Spotify
Music and the Internet
Streaming audio
Sound recording industry
Music trade--Technological innovations
Musique et Internet
Audio en continu
Enregistrements sonores--Industrie
En continu (Télécommunications)
Musique--Industrie--Innovations
MUSIC / History & Criticism
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Entertainment
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Technology Studies
Music and the Internet
Streaming audio
Sound recording industry
Music trade
Streaming technology (Telecommunications)
Sound recording industry
Music trade
Telecommunication
Informational works
Documents d'information
ML3792.S685 ML74.4.S64 / P392m 2025
780.285