The Platformisation of Music Genres on Spotify
Existing research on music consumption suggests that, in recent years, the preferences of music listeners have shifted from a genre-based kind of consumption, where listening habits are shaped around typical music styles (e.g., rock, pop, metal, folk, etc.), to "situational" forms, where m...
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| Veröffentlicht in: | The Platformisation of Consumer Culture S. 95 - 118 |
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| Format: | Buchkapitel |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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Routledge
2024
Amsterdam University Press |
| Ausgabe: | 1 |
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| ISBN: | 9781041188711, 9463729569, 9789463729567, 1041188714 |
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| Zusammenfassung: | Existing research on music consumption suggests that, in recent years, the preferences of music listeners have shifted from a genre-based kind of consumption, where listening habits are shaped around typical music styles (e.g., rock, pop, metal, folk, etc.), to "situational" forms, where moods and the social context wherein music is listened to play a more important role than the adherence to a particular genre. In this chapter we employ the newly created SpotiGem tool to query the Spotify API and thus analyse a set of genre-based playlists vis-à-vis mood-based ones, to observe the extent to which playlist composition has shifted away from genre-specific boundaries. We show that genre consistency still maintains significant relevance in playlist construction, for both users and the Spotify platform, and that even in "mood-based" or "situation-based" playlists there tends to be a certain convergence towards a small number of genres, as opposed to an increase in heterogeneity. |
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| ISBN: | 9781041188711 9463729569 9789463729567 1041188714 |
| DOI: | 10.5117/9789463729567-ch03 |