Music and Digital Media: A planetary anthropology

Music and Digital Media is a groundbreaking anthropological study that explores the impact of digital media on music worldwide.

This comprehensive ethnographic analysis offers a unique perspective on how music has been transformed by digital technology, providing insights into the ways in which digital media have expanded the horizons of music and sound studies.

With its innovative comparative framework, this book demonstrates how music can enlarge anthropology while demanding to be understood with reference to classic themes of anthropological theory.

The author's lucid new theoretical framework shows how digital media can be understood through music, revealing the ways in which music is today where the promises and problems of the digital assume clamouring audibility.

This book will appeal to scholars and students of anthropology, musicology, and media studies, as well as anyone interested in understanding the role of music in the digital age.