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Digital Music, Geography, and Control Digital Music, Geography, and Control
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Spotify and the Promise of Unbounded Listening Spotify and the Promise of Unbounded Listening
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Spotify’s Borders and Boundaries Spotify’s Borders and Boundaries
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“You Know What’s Cool? America”: Access and Capital “You Know What’s Cool? America”: Access and Capital
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4 Digital Music: Regional Lockout and Online Listening
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Published:August 2019
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Abstract
Chapter 4 analyzes regional lockout in digital music platforms. This chapter shows that regional lockout in music is a relatively recent phenomenon, having grown out of the record industry’s increasing reliance on digital download stores and streaming platforms at the expense of the region-free compact disc format. The chapter focuses on the case study of Swedish streaming music service Spotify. Built around a brand promoting music “everywhere” and “for everyone,” the platform has instead been central to debates over regional lockout. Spotify and other similar streaming music platforms belie their geoblocked condition by presenting themselves as services offering global, omnipresent, and customizable listening experiences. Chapter 4 argues that streaming music platforms’ promises of easily accessible music, mobility, and cosmopolitan interconnection in part mask their inconsistent global availability and mechanisms of geolocative back-end control. In doing so, they conflate mobility in an individualized, experiential sense with a global erasure of borders.
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