The Rise of the Platform Music Industries

A critical appraisal of the latest round of platform intermediation, centred on MusicTech, social media platforms and user-generated content, live streaming, crowdfunding and gamification, that is reshaping the contemporary music industry.
The music industries are being reshaped by a fresh round of platform intermediation one based on MusicTech, social media platforms and user-generated content, live streaming, crowdfunding and gamification. Andrew Leyshon and Allan Watson critically examine this latest wave of new platform music industries and consider how they are influencing music creation, distribution and consumption as well as their wider economic and cultural impact.Drawing on contemporary case studies and examples, the authors situate this latest wave of innovation within the historical context of earlier rounds of platform reintermediation, which saw the music industries lurch from a file-sharing crisis to the emergence of the majo