*apologies for crossposting* Dear colleagues, We are delighted to announce the following publication, which we hope might be of interest to you: Raphaël Nowak and Andrew Whelan (eds.), *Networked Music Cultures: Contemporary approaches, emerging issues.* This collection presents a range of essays on contemporary music distribution and consumption patterns and practices. The contributors to the collection use a variety of theoretical and methodological approaches, discussing the consequences and effects of the digital distribution of music as it is manifested in specific cultural contexts. The widespread circulation of music in digital form has far-reaching consequences: not least for how we understand the practices of sourcing and consuming music, the political economy of the music industries, and the relationships between format and aesthetics. Through close empirical engagement with a variety of contexts and analytical frames, the contributors to this collection demonstrate that the changes associated with networked music are always situationally specific, sometimes contentious, and often unexpected in their implications. With chapters covering topics such as the business models of streaming audio, policy and professional discourses around the changing digital music market, the creative affordances of format and circulation, and local practices of accessing and engaging with music in a range of distinct cultural contexts, the book presents an overview of the themes, topics and approaches found in current social and cultural research on the relations between music and digital technology. *Contents* 1. Editors’ introduction – Raphaël Nowak and Andrew Whelan 2. The People’s Mixtape: Peer-to-Peer File Sharing without the Internet in Contemporary Cuba – Tom Astley 3. Musica Analytica: The Datafication of Listening – Robert Prey 4. The Legacy of Napster – Matthew David 5. Streaming Music in Japan: Corporate Cultures as Determinants of Listening Practice – Noriko Manabe 6. Making Sense of Acquiring Music in Mexico City – Víctor Ávila-Torres 7. Reading Songs, Experiencing Music: Co-creation, Materiality and Expertise in Beck’s *Song Reader* – Antoni Roig and Gemma San Cornelio 8. The Digital Music Boundary Object – Raphaël Nowak and Andrew Whelan 9. ‘A Step Back to the Dark Ages of the Music Industry’: Democratisation of Record Production and Discourses on Spotify in *Kuka Mitä Häh? * – Juho Kaitajärvi-Tiekso 10. Off the Charts: The Implications of Incorporating Streaming Data into the Charts – Steve Collins and Pat O’Grady 11. Rethinking the Digital Playlist: Mixtapes, Nostalgia and Emotionally Durable Design – Kieran Fenby-Hulse 12. A Song for Ireland? Policy Discourse and Wealth Generation in the Music Industry in the Context of Digital Upheavals and Economic Crisis – Jim Rogers and Anthony Cawley 13. Pachelbel This Ain’t: Mashups and Canon (De)formation – Anthony Cushing 14. Music Streaming the Everyday Life – Anja Nylund Hagen More details can be found here: http://www.palgrave.com/de/book/9781137582898#aboutBook With our very best wishes, Andrew and Raphaël