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My Jazz World: The Rise and Fall of a Digital Utopia

In: Barber, Simon (2018) My Jazz World: The Rise and Fall of a Digital Utopia. In: The Routledge Companion to Jazz Studies. Routledge Music Companions . Routledge, New York, pp. 455-464. ISBN 9781138231160

Barber, Simon

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Abstract

This chapter presents a study of an online community organised around sharing digital versions of hard-to-find jazz records. Drawing on the political economy of file-sharing, and specifically gift economies, I examine how and why tastemakers in such communities produce, prepare and distribute music, and the rituals of reward and reciprocation involved. I use the imagined perfection of a 'digital utopia' to interrogate the discourses of fans, artists and critics as tensions are revealed between the value of 'MP3 blogs' as venues for taste-making and as archives, versus the ethical, moral and industrial complexities they engender for rights owners and other vested interests.

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