Editor: Michael D. Ayers
ISBN: 082047861X

Writer, researcher, freelance music journalist and Visiting Professor at Manhattan College, Michael D. Ayers has assembled several international experts with impressive credentials who explore the recent phenomenon of the Internet music revolution, wherein there has been a convergence between artists, capitalism, fans, media, technology, and music itself. The result is an excellent compilation of essays featured in Cybersounds: Essays on Virtual Music Culture that present an insightful analysis of topics that up to now were lacking in technical sophistication in their discussions.

In bringing together these experts, these contributors have done a remarkable job in breaking down into their basic components such hot- button issues as the legal challenges that surround music and the Internet the birth and evolution of cyber communities how technology is used to frustrate corporate interests questions about transformation and how cyberspace has affected the way we appreciate music from a passive to an active role the question of power and regulation, for as Ayers states,