Broadcasting the Bedroom: Intimate musical practices and collapsing contexts on YouTube

Maarten Michielse*

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Abstract

This chapter investigates how users deal with the opportunities and challenges that come with practising their musical activities online. It illustrates the concept of a context collapse can be an important tool in understanding the daily worries and struggles of bedroom musicians on a platform such as YouTube. YouTube has become famous for its slogan 'Broadcast Yourself'. As other media scholars have pointed out, however, one can question the extent to which 'broadcasting' is the correct term for the types of transmission made on this platform. On YouTube, bedroom musicians find new possibilities to disclose their otherwise private musical practices and establish new connections with people all around the world. At the same time, their activities are met with criticism and misunderstanding, especially from relative outsiders to the community of practitioners. Moreover, many bedroom musicians see their practices as opportunities for learning.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationMediated Intimacies
Subtitle of host publicationConnectivities, Relationalities and Proximities
EditorsRikke Andreassen, Michael Nebeling Petersen, Katherine Harrison, Tobias Raun
PublisherRoutledge/Taylor & Francis Group
Pages252-267
ISBN (Electronic)9781351804097
ISBN (Print)9781138631861
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2017

Publication series

SeriesRoutledge Studies in European Communication Research and Education

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