Networks of value in electronic music: SoundCloud, London, and the importance of place
Networks of value in electronic music: SoundCloud, London, and the importance of place
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电子音乐的价值网络：SoundCloud、伦敦以及地点的重要性
DOI：
10.1080/09548963.2015.1066073
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发表时间：
2015
期刊：
影响因子：
3.1
通讯作者：
Allington D
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文献类型：
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作者：
Allington D
虽然最近的辩论往往集中在一个具体的“文化价值”（无论是反对或与货币价值），本文将“价值”作为一个动词，并调查在人们从事的价值行为。通过对伦敦电子音乐领域的人种学研究和对SoundCloud音频共享网站（主要是电子舞曲，其次是嘻哈音乐）的社交网络分析，它揭示了地理不平等的实质性模式。伦敦位于一个价值关系网络的中心，纽约和洛杉矶占据了第二个最优越的位置，其次是柏林、巴黎和芝加哥。西欧和英语世界以外的城市往往在网络中占据边缘地位。这一发现表明，位置在价值的流通中起着重要作用，即使我们可能认为这种作用已经被一种表面上“无位置”的音乐传播和估价媒介所削弱。虽然有理由让舞曲在大都市中占据一席之地--考虑到生产、消费和现场DJ之间关系的重要性--但特定城市的扩张也反映了更广泛的文化经济中的不平等模式。伦敦应该看起来如此优越，这既反映了英国创意产业的出口实力，也反映了英国文化经济的不平衡性质。
While recent debate has often focused on a reified “cultural value” (whether opposed to or aligned with monetary value), this article treats “value” as a verb and investigates the acts of valuing in which people engage. Through ethnographic research in London's electronic music scene and social network analysis of the SoundCloud audio sharing website (which is dominated by electronic dance music and, to a lesser extent, hip hop), it uncovers substantial patterns of geographical inequality. London is found at the very centre of a network of valuing relationships, in which New York and Los Angeles occupy the next most privileged locations, followed by Berlin, Paris, and Chicago. Cities outside Western Europe and the Anglophone world tend to occupy peripheral positions in the network. This finding suggests that location plays a major role in the circulation of value, even when we might expect that role to have been curtailed by an ostensibly “placeless” medium for the distribution and valuing of music. While there are reasons for the metropolitan emplacedness of dance music – given the importance of the relationship between production, consumption, and live DJing – the privileging of particular cities also mirrors patterns of inequality in the wider cultural economy. That London should appear so supremely privileged reflects both the exporting strength of British creative industries and the imbalanced nature of the UK's cultural economy.
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