Since the mass proliferation of the Internet, music has been the one art form that has seen the most attention online. This volume culls together essays that examine the cultural aspects of music existing online. More than just the notion that «people download,» Cybersounds is the first collection that critically looks at this issue, ultimately presenting new ideas and directions for exploring this field. Since the mass proliferation of the Internet, music has been the one art form that has seen the most attention online. This volume culls together essays that examine the cultural aspects of music existing online. More than just the notion that «people download,» Cybersounds is the first collection that critically looks at this issue, ultimately presenting new ideas and directions for exploring this field. Acknowledgments ix Introduction Michael D. Ayers 1(8) Chapter One: Deafening Silence: Music and the Emerging Climate of Access and Use Elizabeth A. Buchanan 9(12) Chapter Two: Cybernetic Gift Giving and Social Drama: A Netnography of the Napster File-Sharing Community Markus Giesler 21(36) Chapter Three: Do U Produce?: Subcultural Capital and Amateur Musicianship in Peer-to-Peer Networks Andrew Whelan 57(26) Chapter Four: Building a Virtual Diaspora: Hip-Hop in Cyberspace Andre Pinard and Sean Jacobs 83(24) Chapter Five: The Technology of Subversion: From Digital Sampling in Hip-Hop to the MP3 Revolution Adam Haupt 107(20) Chapter Six: The Cyberactivism of a Dangermouse Michael D. Ayers 127(10) Chapter Seven: Music B(r)ands Online and Constructing Community: The Case of New Model Army Daragh O'Reilly and Kathy Doherty 137(24) Chapter Eight: Beating the Bootleggers: Fan Creativity, "Lossless" Audio Trading, and Commercial Opportunities Chris Anderton 161(24) Chapter Nine: "Hacking" the iPod: A Look inside Apple's Portable Music Player Gabrielle Consentino 185(24) Chapter Ten: The Social Pulse of Telharmonics: Functions of Networked Sound and Interactive Webcasting Trace Reddell 209(30) Chapter Eleven: Breaking the Decision Chain: The Fate of Creativity in the Age of Self-Production John Ryan and Michael Hughes 239(16) Afterword: On the Future of Music Jonathan Sterne 255(10) Notes 265(8) List of Contributors 273(4) Index 277