Consuming Music in the Digital Age: Technologies, Roles and Everyday Life (Pop Music, Culture and Identity)

Consuming Music in the Digital Age investigates the ways young individuals obtain music, listen to it and are affected by it in the age of digital music technologies. In exploring questions related to the material and technological modalities of contemporary modes of music consumption; to the diffusion of music within everyday life; to individuals' affective responses to music; to their tastes and to the relevance of music within their life narratives, this book aims to highlight how music increasingly represents an essential resource in contemporary societies. It offers a much-needed update to theories from the sociology of music on individual music listening practices, while also accounting for the various ways in which structural elements mediate various contexts of music consumption.