Liz Pelly Mood Machine review, recensie en informatie boek over Spotify van de Amerikaanse journaliste. Op 7 januari 2025 verschijnt bij Atria Books het boek over de opkomst van Spotify en de consequenties van de perfecte playlist, geschreven door de uit de Verenigde Staten afkomstige journalist Liz Pelly. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de auteur en over de uitgave. Een Nederlandse vertaling van het boek is niet verkrijgbaar.
Liz Pelly Mood Machine review, recensie en informatie
- “Pelly has written a groundbreaking examination of the music-streaming giant Spotify and its effects on 21st-century music. . . . A provocative, insightful, disturbing, and well-researched indictment of Spotify, the music industry, and streaming platforms, which daily mine billions of data bits from listeners/viewers to maximize profits and churn out musical formulas. Highly recommended.” (Library Journal)
- “A spirited debut…Evocative prose and sharp analysis combine for a trenchant critique of the music streaming industry that calls for concrete reforms while asking bigger questions about “why universal access to music matters” and the cultural consequences of restricting its production and dissemination. The result is a perceptive assessment of the current musical landscape and an eye-opening glimpse into its possible future.” (Publishers Weekly)
Mood Machine
The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist
- Auteur: Liz Pelly (Verenigde Staten)
- Soort boek: journalistiek boek over Spotify
- Taal: Engels
- Uitgever: Atria Books
- Verschijnt: 7 januari 2025
- Omvang: 288 pagina’s
- Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook / luisterboek
- Prijs: $ 28,99 / $ 14,99 / $ 24,99
- Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris
Flaptekst van het boek over Spotify van Liz Pelly
An unsparing investigation into Spotify’s origins and influence on music, weaving unprecedented reporting with incisive cultural criticism, illuminating how streaming is reshaping music for listeners and artists alike.
Drawing on over one hundred interviews with industry insiders, former Spotify employees, and musicians, Mood Machine takes us to the inner workings of today’s highly consolidated record business, showing what has changed as music has become increasingly playlisted, personalized, and autoplayed.
Building on her years of wide-ranging reporting on streaming, music journalist Liz Pelly details the consequences of the Spotify model by examining both sides of what the company calls its two-sided marketplace: the listeners who pay with their dollars and data, and the musicians who provide the material powering it all. The music business is notoriously opaque, but here Pelly lifts the veil on major stories like streaming services filling popular playlists with low-cost stock music and the rise of new payola-like practices.
For all of the inequities exacerbated by streaming, Pelly also finds hope in chronicling the artist-led fight for better models, pointing toward what must be done collectively to revalue music and create sustainable systems. A timely exploration of a company that has become synonymous with music, Mood Machine will change the way you think about and listen to music.
Liz Pelly is a journalist living in New York. Her essays and reporting have appeared in The Baffler, where she is a contributing editor, as well as in The Guardian, NPR, Rolling Stone, Pitchfork, and many other outlets. She frequently speaks about music streaming on radio shows and podcasts, including appearances with The New York Times Popcast, NPR’s Morning Edition, and others. Pelly teaches in the recorded music program at New York University, and has spent over a decade involved in all-ages show booking. Learn more at LizPelly.info and follow her on social media @LizPelly.
