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Does NME Even Know What a Music Blog Is?

Does NME Even Know What a Music Blog Is?

Wodtke, Larissa

Paperback

General Sociology

ISBN10: 363909509X
ISBN13: 9783639095098
Publisher: Blues Kids Of Amer
Published: Oct 23 2008
Pages: 120
Weight: 0.38
Height: 0.25 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
MP3 blogs and their aggregators, which have risen to prominence over the past four years, are presenting an alternative way of promoting and discovering new music. This book argues that MP3 files greatly affect MP3 blogs in terms of shaping them as: a genre separate from general weblogs and music blogs without MP3s, especially due to the impact of MP3 blog aggregators such as The Hype Machine and Elbows; a particular form of rhetoric illuminated by Kenneth Burke's dramatistic ratios; and a potentially subversive subculture, which like other subcultures, exists in a symbiotic relationship with the traditional media it defines itself against. Using excerpts from multiple MP3 blogs and their forums, interviews with MP3 bloggers and Anthony Volodkin (creator of The Hype Machine), references to MP3 blogs in traditional press, and dramatism and social semiotic theory, this book demonstrates that the MP3 file is not only changing the way music is consumed and circulated, but also the way music is promoted and discussed. This is a valuable academic text about the social implications of an emerging medium that has not yet been explored in the academic arena.

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