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Barcode30293102282709
LocationClark County
Call No780.285 Pell
TitleMood machine : the rise of Spotify and the costs of the perfect playlist / Liz Pelly.
AuthorPelly, Liz, author.
CollectionNF
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Clark County30293102282709780.285 Pell2/28/2025 AvailableClark County

Catalog Details

International Standard Book Number 9781668083505 (hardcover)
International Standard Book Number 1668083507 (hardcover)
Personal Name Pelly, Liz, author.
Title Statement Mood machine : the rise of Spotify and the costs of the perfect playlist / Liz Pelly.
Edition Statement First One Signal Publishers/Atria Books hardcover edition.
Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice New York : One Signal Publishers/Atria, 2025.
Physical Description xii, 274 pages ; 24 cm.
Bibliography, Etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-266) and index.
Formatted Contents Note The bureau of piracy... -- "Saving" the music industry -- Selling lean-back listening -- The conquest of chill -- Ghost artists for hire -- The background music makers -- Streambait pop -- Listen to yourself -- Self-driving music -- Fandom as data -- Sounds for self-optimization -- Streaming as surveillance -- The first 0035 is the hardest -- An app for a boss -- Indie vibes -- This is...payola? -- The lobbyists -- The new music labor movement.
Summary, Etc. "An unsparing investigation into Spotify's origins and influence on music, weaving unprecedented reporting with incisive cultural criticism, illuminating how streaming is reshaping music for listeners and artists alike. Drawing on over one hundred interviews with industry insiders, former Spotify employees, and musicians, Mood Machine takes us to the inner workings of today's highly consolidated record business, showing what has changed as music has become increasingly playlisted, personalized, and autoplayed. Building on her years of wide-ranging reporting on streaming, music journalist Liz Pelly details the consequences of the Spotify model by examining both sides of what the company calls its two-sided marketplace: the listeners who pay with their dollars and data, and the musicians who provide the material powering it all. The music business is notoriously opaque, but here Pelly lifts the veil on major stories like streaming services filling popular playlists with low-cost stock music and the rise of new payola-like practices. For all of the inequities exacerbated by streaming, Pelly also finds hope in chronicling the artist-led fight for better models, pointing toward what must be done collectively to revalue music and create sustainable systems. A timely exploration of a company that has become synonymous with music, Mood Machine will change the way you think about and listen to music"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject-Corporate Name Spotify (Firm)
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Sound recording industry.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Music trade.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Streaming audio.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Music and the Internet.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Streaming technology (Telecommunications)

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