21st Century Perspectives on Music, Technology, and Culture

Richard Purcell is Assistant Professor at Carnegie Mellon University, USA. He is author of Race, Ralph Ellison and American Cold War Intellectual Culture (Palgrave 2013).Richard Randall is Cooper-Siegel Associate Professor of Music at Carnegie Mellon University, USA. His recent publications include Similarity Measures for Tonal Models (2006) and Lerdahl's Tonal Pitch Space Model and Associated Metric Spaces.

• Introduction: Listening in on the 21st Century; Richard Randall and Richard Purcell1. The Scream and Other Tales: Narrating Detroit Radio History with the Vertical File; Carleton Gholz2. On Tape: Cassette Culture in Edinburgh and Glasgow Now; Kieran Curran3. Radio in Transit: Satellite Technology, Cars, and the Evolution of Musical Genre; Jeffrey Roessner4. The Internet and the Death of Jazz: Race, Improvisation, and the Crisis of Community; Margret Grebowicz5. A Brief Consideration of the Hip-Hop Biopic; Richard Purcell6. Love Streams; Damon Krukowski7. A Case for Musical Privacy; Richard Randall8. Digital Music and Public Goods; Graham Hubbs9. The Preservation Paradox; Jonathan Sterne10. Headphones are the New Walls: Music in the Workplace in the Digital Age; Kathy Newman11. Researching the Mobile Phone Ringtone: Towards and Beyond The Ringtone Dialectic; Sumanth Gopinath