Ryan Blakeley is a Ph.D. candidate in musicology at the Eastman School of Music. His research investigates how digital platforms, such as music streaming services, are affecting listening habits, creative practices, and music industry power dynamics. He also analyzes popular music through the lens of genre and narrative.
Dave Fossum is an assistant professor of musicology in the School of Music, Dance and Theatre at Arizona State University. His current book project, Copyright Consciousness: Musical Creativity and Intellectual Property in Turkey, examines how diverse music industry actors have experienced, debated, and shaped the dramatic reform of Turkey’s copyright system since the 1980s. It shows how they make sense of and respond to the music copyright system’s purported failures and perceived injustices, often by integrating their experiences into larger narratives about Turkish society, the nature and value of musical creativity, or the histories of national genres....
University of California Press