MUSICSTREAM Publications
2025
David Hesmondhalgh & Shuwen Qu, Music Streaming Platforms and Everyday Musical Lives: Dynamics of Community, Individualisation and Personalisation in China. Platforms and Society.
David Hesmondhalgh & Raquel Campos Valverde, Living with Music in the Digital Age: Entanglements of the Functional and the Aesthetic. European Journal of Cultural Studies.
David Hesmondhalgh (Ed), Music Streaming Around the World. University of California Press. (Edited collection of 14 chapters, including the following by MUSICSTREAM team members):
- David Hesmondhalgh, The Global Spread of Music Streaming: Capitalism and Colonialism, Technology and Culture.
- Raquel Campos Valverde, Inequity by Design: Music Streaming Taxonomies as Ruinous Infrastructure.
- Zhongwei Mabu Li & D. Bondy Valdovinos Kaye, Independent Music Creators and Self-releasing in China: A History of Platformization.
- Shuwen Qu & D. Bondy Valdovinos Kaye, Charting Anonymous Hits: How Short Video Platforms Have Changed the Chinese Music Industries.
David Hesmondhalgh & D. Bondy Valdovinos Kaye. 2025. What Do Musicians Think of Digital Platforms? Popular Music.
David Hesmondhalgh. 2025. Subjectivity, Culture, and the Datafication of Music. Convergence.
D. Bondy Valdovinos Kaye, Renting Royalties: How the Assetization of Music Copyrights Contributes to Inequality for Musicians. Media, Culture and Society.
2024
David Hesmondhalgh, Raquel Campos Valverde, D. Bondy Valdovinos Kaye, & Zhongwei Mabu Li, Critically Analyzing Platform Interfaces: How Music Streaming Platforms Frame Musical Experience. International Journal of Communication.
Zhongwei Mabu Li & David Hesmondhalgh, From P2P to the Cloud: Music, Platformization, and Infrastructural Change in China. Chinese Journal of Communication.
2023
David Hesmondhalgh, Raquel Campos Valverde, D. Bondy Valdovinos Kaye, & Zhongwei Mabu Li, Digital Platforms and Infrastructure in the Realm of Culture. Media and Communication.
David Hesmondhalgh, Raquel Campos Valverde, D. Bondy Valdovinos Kaye, & Zhongwei Mabu Li, The Impact of Algorithmically Driven Recommendation Systems on Music Consumption and Production – a literature review. UK Department of Media, Culture and Sport.
Shuwen Qu, “Water, Asylum, Metamorphosis, Freak Show”: Flourishing through Streaming Karaoke Play in China. Cultural Studies.
Aditya Lal, David Hesmondhalgh & Charles Umney, The Changing Shape of the Indian Recorded Music Industry in the Age of Platformisation. Contemporary South Asia.
2022
David Hesmondhalgh, Streaming’s Effects on Music Culture: Old Anxieties and New Simplifications. Cultural Sociology.
Other Relevant Research Published by Team Members since 2021
2025
D. Bondy Valdovinos Kaye, Kylie Pappalardo, & Joanne Gray, In the Style Of: Exploring Industry, Creator, and Legal Implications of Copying Style Through Generative AI. Information, Communication & Society.
2024
David Hesmondhalgh & Hyojung Sun, How Working Musicians (Finally) Became a Matter of Mainstream Political Interest. In Arditi D and Nolan R (Eds), Handbook of Critical Music Industry Studies, Palgrave.
David Hesmondhalgh & Charles Umney, Non-Labour Platforms and their Effects on Work in Specific Sectors: A Major Gap in Recent Research on Work and Employment. In Pitts FH and MacLeavy J (Eds), The Routledge Handbook for the Future of Work. Routledge.
D. Bondy Valdovinos Kaye, Changing Authorship and Copyright in Media Markets: A Value Approach. In Rohn U, Von Rimscha B & Raats T (Eds), De Gruyter Handbook of Media Economics, De Gruyter.
2023
D. Bondy Valdovinos Kaye, JazzTok: Creativity, Community, and Improvisation on TikTok. Jazz and Culture.
Raquel Campos Valverde, Spain and the Old Regime of Post-truth: Freedom of Speech, Ritualised Politics, and Postmemory on Social Media. Ethnologia Europaea.
Francesca Sobande, David Hesmondhalgh & Anamik Saha, Black, Brown and Asian Cultural Workers, Creativity and Activism: The Ambivalence of Digital Self-Branding Practices. The Sociological Review.
2022
Raquel Campos Valverde, Online Musicking for Humanity: The Role of Imagined Listening and the Moral Economies of Music Sharing on Social Media. Popular Music.
Zhongwei Mabu Li, 「打口」： 物質性、基礎設施與亞文化想像
Cut-out: Materiality, Infrastructure, and Subcultural Imaginary. 文化研究 Router: A Journal of Cultural Studies.
2021
David Hesmondhalgh, Is Music Streaming Bad for Musicians? Problems of Evidence and Argument. New Media & Society.
David Hesmondhalgh, Richard Osborne, Hyojung Sun, & Kenneth Barr, Music Creators’ Earnings in the Digital Era. UK Intellectual Property Office.
Shuwen Qu, David Hesmondhalgh, & Jian Xiao, Music Streaming Platforms and Self-Releasing Musicians: The Case of China. Information, Communication & Society.
Steven Gamble & Raquel Campos Valverde, Editorial. Global Hip Hop Studies.
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