Greetings AoIR folks-- thought some of you might be interested in checking out this new collection i just wrapped- Let me know if you'd like more information! anywho, its on amazon, peter lang direct, ie. the usual suspects. cheers, Mike michael.ayers@manhattan.edu Cybersounds: Essays on Virtual Music Culture (Michael D. Ayers, editor) Peter Lang Press, January 2006 Digital Formations Series (Series Editor, Steve Jones) Michael D. Ayers: Introduction - 1.Elizabeth A. Buchanan: Deafening Silence: Music and the Emerging Climate of Access and Use - 2.Markus Giesler: Cybernetic Gift Giving and Social Drama: A Netnography of the Napster File-Sharing Community - 3.Andrew Whelan: Do U Produce?: Subcultural Capital and Amateur Musicianship in Peer-to-Peer Networks - 4.Andre Pinard/Sean Jacobs: Building a Virtual Diaspora: Hip-Hop in Cyberspace - 5.Adam Haupt: The Technology of Subversion: From Digital Sampling in Hip-Hop to the MP3 Revolution - 6.Michael D. Ayers: The Cyberactivism of a Dangermouse - 7.Daragh O'Reilly/Kathy Doherty: Music B(r)ands Online and Constructing Community: The Case of New Model Army - 8.Chris Anderton: Beating the Bootleggers: Fan Creativity, «Lossless» Audio Trading, and Commercial Opportunities - 9.Gabriele Cosentino: «Hacking» the iPod: A Look inside Apple's Portable Music Player - 10.Trace Reddell: The Social Pulse of Telharmonics: Functions of Networked Sound and Interactive Webcasting - 11.John Ryan/Michael Hughes: Breaking the Decision Chain: The Fate of Creativity in the Age of Self-Production - 12.Jonathan Sterne: Afterword: On the Future of Music. Some advance thoughts: The writers offer an illuminating cybersurfing safari out to the point break where art, commerce, community, self, and politics converge. The result is a smooth ride to a fresh new shoreline of twenty-first century cultural criticism. The essays are comprehensive, well crafted, theoretically informed, empirically grounded, loud, clear, alive, and kicking.» (Donna Gaines, sociologist/journalist; Author of 'Teenage Wasteland' and 'A Misfits Manifesto') «'Cybersounds' is terrific. It takes readers inside the many sorts of cyberscenes now being developed by inventive people creatively using the Internet to build community among music makers and fans. We see the emergence of new means of controlling entry, norms of communication, identity formation, politics, and ethics in these worlds where flesh and machine begin to merge. These emergent scenes are set in the context of the technologies, laws, and business models that make them possible and shape/stunt their growth, and we learn of the musical creativity lost as well as the creativity gained in the process.» (Richard A. Peterson, Co-Editor with Andy Bennett of 'Music Scenes: Local, Translocal and Virtual')