In 2012, I’m working on three books – and I’ve also just re-released one from 2007, now available as a free download. If you’d like any further information about any of these books, feel free to get in touch.
Music in the Digital Age
Music is both culture and commerce. Those two things are inextricably linked. Just as the changes brought by the Electric Age were profoundly disruptive to the musicians, businesses and fans of music when it first came along, so too are those brought by the Digital Age. My aim is to help you understand and adapt to those changes.
Download Music in the Digital Age [PDF/Kindle/iBook]
Or… pre-order the audiobook today!
Now also available:
Musik im Digitalen Zeitalter [German]
Muusika digitaalajastul [Estonian]
Η Μουσική στη Ψηφιακή Εποχή [Greek]
Radio in the Digital Age
The changes to the medium of radio since the advent of digital technology call into question what it is we even call radio anymore. Radio may now be different in terms of its production processes, the kinds of jobs radio professionals do, whether professionals are even involved in its creation, the method of transmission, the devices we use to listen, the kinds of programmes we hear, and even how we behave as audiences and participants. My central argument in Radio in the Digital Age is that essentialist notions of radio as a medium directly contribute to the difficulties experienced in its adaptation to the digital environment in which we find ourselves.
It will be published by Polity Press in 2013.
Visit the Radio in the Digital Age website and blog for more details.
Understanding the Music Industries
This book is designed as an overview and introduction to the music industries for undergraduate students, college students and interested observers. It looks at music industries as a group of connected professional media businesses that include (but are not exclusively) recording, live and publishing industries. Chris Anderton, Martin James and I focus strongly on the changes in the contemporary environment, and the influence of digital technologies and new innovations on studio production, copyright law, distribution methods and independent music business strategies – as well as the concerns of the major music businesses across the sector.
A forthcoming publication for Sage, due in 2012/13, the book also discusses ways in which students of the music industries might approach a critical study, and discusses approaches as diverse as political economy, musicology and media ecology as frames through which to examine and understand the music business.
The 20 Things You Must Know About Music Online
Here’s an earlier one. The original 2007 New Music Strategies free e-book is still (almost) as relevant and useful today as it was when it was released nearly five years ago. It’s now available for Kindle and iPad as well as a PDF version. The newer work, Music in the Digital Age (above) refers to and updates this book.
Download The 20 Things for FREE [PDF/Kindle/iBook]
Now also available in:
- Portuguese
- Chinese
- Spanish
- German