IDS 2673 Faulk Fall 2022

This course explores how the phenomenon of streaming music has transformed popular music: how it’s made and marketed, shared, experienced, and interpreted. We will draw on keywords and concepts from media studies in order to develop a critical approach to digital music culture and the forces that drive the practice. We will pay special attention to “post-genre” artists such as Willow Smith, Taylor Swift, Post Malone, and Olivia Rodrigo, whose musical eclecticism seems directly related to our ability to access the entirety of recorded music on demand using our digital tools.