“Streaming Music, Streaming Capital is terrific. Eric Drott offers us an assured and learned guide to understanding recorded music in the present conjuncture and likely for years to come. As a study of the political and psychic economies of music streaming, it is unparalleled and will be a must-read.”
-- Sumanth Gopinath, author of The Ringtone Dialectic: Economy and Cultural Form
“Eric Drott offers a much-needed analysis of recorded music, online streaming, and their mutual mediation. With its incorporation into digital platforms, music’s oft-celebrated power to connect takes on new significance as it becomes, simultaneously, a lucrative asset, a service to rent, a means of data accumulation, and an extraeconomic resource. Drott’s fascinating examination of this new music economy’s coherences and contradictions deserves to be widely read.”
-- Marie Thompson, Senior Lecturer in Popular Music, The Open University
“For those awaiting the definitive critical interrogation of the global music streaming economy, Eric Drott has provided a consummate account. Drott refuses the fallacy of music’s exceptionalism, and in this skilled reading music portends many of the wider crises characterizing our world.”
-- Georgina Born, Professor of Anthropology and Music, University College London
"Drott, impressively, manages to treat the subject at great length along the way, displaying a deep knowledge of Marxist economics and music biz commerce."
-- Dave Mandl The Wire
"Brilliant. . . . Streaming Music, Streaming Capital offers rich insights into the ubiquitous digital logics of our time: datafication, optimization, platformization, surveillance. . . . [It] deserves very high praise."
-- Abby Beilman, Jacob Mitchell, Jewon Ryu, Max Ritts and Shan-yu Wang Antipode