Re-Composing YouTube (Paperback)

Paperback. YouTube features a wide array of multimodal musical figurations, including fan-made music videos, musical aestheticisations of pre-circulating content, and musical self-performances. Jonas Wolf explores open-ended forms of musical creative relay on YouTube, delving into formal, imitative, affective, and (non-)institutional aspects of networked media remix and (self-)aestheticisation. Beyond creating value for non-musical fields of discourse, this study is directed at filling a gap in a largely ocularcentric domain of study. It provides a concise theory of vernacular composition within our time's total digital archive that accounts for socio-aesthetic phenomena and their relation to systems of knowledge, control, and discourse. A concise theory of musical everyday aesthetics on YouTube, shedding light on networked forms of composition and the systems of knowledge and discourse that produce them. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…