CfP: Streaming economy and music cultures: circulation strategies and digital music consumption practices (MusiMid: Revista Brasileira de Estudos em Música e Mídia), Deadline: 16.06.2025
After years of experimenting with new digital music business models, audio and video streaming services have become the predominant method of distributing digital music in virtually every market in the world. This centrality has brought with it a series of changes in the way that consumers listen to music as well as musicians produce their works. On the consumption side, the playlist format became the preferred one to listen to digital music, and the automatic music recommendation systems gained prominence for access to digital catalogues. On the production side, the modus operandi of streaming services also changed the strategies for composing and releasing songs. Given the low monetary returns paid by digital platforms, many artists have adopted different tactics to conduct their careers: the album format has been abandoned in favor of singles in sequence, the band format has been reduced to the one-man band model, and new compositions follows the biases of the recommendation systems in order to be included in the most listened playlists. Finally, music produced by generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) has already become a real threat to the music industry, raising several concerns: would GenAI be able to replace human artists? What is the aesthetics of music produced by GenAI? How will this new technology affect copyright laws? Is it possible to protect human composers and performers against this new technology?
This dossier invites researchers to submit papers that analyze and assess the digital music industry in its most diverse aspects: new music consumption practices, the effects of music recommendation systems, music production strategies, the digital music economy and its effects on the musician’s practices, laws for the regulation of music streaming services, cultural policies aimed at fostering cultural diversity in the digital music market, especially those of the global south, the use of GenAI for music production and its practical effects on the music economy as well as on copyright laws, among other aspects that could help to understand what the music industry is, how it works and what will become in the years to come.
Submissions can be in Portuguese, English, Spanish or French and must have between 25,000 and 50,000 characters (with spaces). They should include an abstract (100 to 250 words) and Keywords (3 to 5).
Authors are not required to pay submission or publication charges of any sort.
Link to the call: https://revistamusimid.com.br/index.php/MusiMid/announcement/view/10
Link to submission template in Portuguese:https://revistamusimid.com.br/index.php/MusiMid/libraryFiles/downloadPublic/3
Submission deadline: 16th. June 2025
Publication: by September 2025
Invited editors: Leonardo De Marchi (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro) and Gustavo Ferreira (University of Toronto).
About the Journal
Created in 2020, Musimid: Revista Brasileira de Estudos em Música e Mídia (ISSN 2675-3944 | DOI: 10.29327/16597) is a biannual open access journal published by the Centro de Estudos em Música e Mídia - MusiMid with blind peer review. It publishes interdisciplinary texts on music, with emphasis on musical semiotics, as well as in the strict sense (musicology, history, criticism).
Among the topics of interest of the Journal, the issues related to performance and its models stand out: its relations with the body and its various layers of mediation, throughout history; the role of technology and media platforms in the processes of poetic communication; the design of musical instrument and its interpolation with various devices, existing or obsolete (microphone, amplification, high-fidelity), and media platforms; variations in listening patterns, taste and aesthetic sensitivity, through the introduction of different sound media; soundscapes and changes in sensitivity; the interfaces of musical language with other artistic languages; issues related to contemporaneity, globalization, identity, belonging and affective bond, through music; cultural, musical and media memory; constitution of stable values in the ephemeral era.