Music Consumption and Technological Eclecticism: Investigating Generation Y’s Adoption and Uses of Music Technologies

TY - JOUR

T1 - Music Consumption and Technological Eclecticism

T2 - Investigating Generation Y’s Adoption and Uses of Music Technologies

AU - Nowak, Raphaël

AU - Bennett, Andy

N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2020 Sage Publications and YOUNG Editorial Group.

PY - 2020/9/1

Y1 - 2020/9/1

N2 - This article is interested in a techno-cultural moment usually summarized by the phrase ‘digital age’. We explore how people who belong to Generation Y and were young at the time of the development of digital music technologies have adopted and used those new technological possibilities while maintaining a relationship with other media and technologies, such as the compact disc (CD), the vinyl disc and, eventually, the cassette tape. We situate our approach against arguments that either frame digital technologies as a ‘revolution’ that swept across all other technologies or stipulate that generations are tied to particular technological innovations. Drawing on qualitative methods, we defend an argument of technological eclecticism to understand the intra-variations and nuances that define individuals’ adoption and uses of music technologies in their consumption practices. This article provides a sociocultural perspective on the uses of music technologies by individuals whose music consumption practices have been largely essentialized.

AB - This article is interested in a techno-cultural moment usually summarized by the phrase ‘digital age’. We explore how people who belong to Generation Y and were young at the time of the development of digital music technologies have adopted and used those new technological possibilities while maintaining a relationship with other media and technologies, such as the compact disc (CD), the vinyl disc and, eventually, the cassette tape. We situate our approach against arguments that either frame digital technologies as a ‘revolution’ that swept across all other technologies or stipulate that generations are tied to particular technological innovations. Drawing on qualitative methods, we defend an argument of technological eclecticism to understand the intra-variations and nuances that define individuals’ adoption and uses of music technologies in their consumption practices. This article provides a sociocultural perspective on the uses of music technologies by individuals whose music consumption practices have been largely essentialized.

KW - digital technologies

KW - Generation Y

KW - materiality

KW - music

KW - music consumption

KW - music technologies

KW - technological eclecticism

KW - youth

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85078486217&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1177/1103308819896173

DO - 10.1177/1103308819896173

M3 - Article

AN - SCOPUS:85078486217

SN - 1103-3088

VL - 28

SP - 347

EP - 362

JO - Young

JF - Young

IS - 4

ER -