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<p>This article takes a look at the ever expanding and increasingly commercially significant world of live music streaming through the nexus of electronic dance music. After charting the history of live music streaming, the article outlines the positive impacts that live music streaming has on promotion, sales and preservation of rare ethno-folk musics. However, interviews with industry insiders reveal opaque practices, where copyright enforcement is specifically utilised by a few large broadcasters in such a way as to maintain the dominance of their position within the live music streaming industry. A heightened agency in the hands of major corporations over what music audiences can see or hear is also identified. This article concludes that as live music streaming is co-opted across more music genres, these opaque practices will likely transfer across genre boundaries too. As such, it is important for live music streaming to come under further examination within the academy.</p>
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This article takes a look at the ever expanding and increasingly commercially significant world of live music streaming through the nexus of electronic dance music. After charting the history of live music streaming, the article outlines the positive impacts that live music streaming has on promotion, sales and preservation of rare ethno-folk musics. However, interviews with industry insiders reveal opaque practices, where copyright enforcement is specifically utilised by a few large broadcasters in such a way as to maintain the dominance of their position within the live music streaming industry. A heightened agency in the hands of major corporations over what music audiences can see or hear is also identified. This article concludes that as live music streaming is co-opted across more music genres, these opaque practices will likely transfer across genre boundaries too. As such, it is important for live music streaming to come under further examination within the academy.

Stream of Conscience? Live Music Streaming: Utility, Capital and Control

International Journal of Music Business Research

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This article takes a look at the ever expanding and increasingly commercially significant world of live music streaming through the nexus of electronic dance...

Stream of Conscience? Live Music Streaming: Utility, Capital and Control

Article Category: Research Article

Published Online: Apr 08, 2022

Page range: 29 - 42

Received: Dec 01, 2021

Accepted: Jan 20, 2022

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/ijmbr-2022-0005

Keywords
Live Music, Live Streaming, Copyright, Corporations, Social Media

© 2022 Arthur Ehlinger et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Stream of Conscience? Live Music Streaming: Utility, Capital and Control

Article Category: Research Article

Published Online: Apr 08, 2022

Page range: 29 - 42

Received: Dec 01, 2021

Accepted: Jan 20, 2022

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/ijmbr-2022-0005

KeywordsLive Music, Live Streaming, Copyright, Corporations, Social Media

© 2022 Arthur Ehlinger et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Keywords
Live Music, Live Streaming, Copyright, Corporations, Social Media