Somatechnics and Popular Music in Digital Contexts

Dr Laura Glitsos is a Senior Adjunct Research Fellow in the School of Arts and Humanities at Edith Cowan University in Perth, Western Australia. In addition to her expertise in the media and music industries, she has worked as a professional vocalist for which she was honoured with two Western Australian Music Awards. Dr Glitsos has published peer-review research in media studies, cultural studies, and popular music studies and lectures across the Humanities. Somatechnics and Popular Music in Digital Contexts is her first sole-authored book.

• 1. Introduction: Listening Through the Body.- 2. Materiality, the Bodymind, and Music Listening.- 3. Liveness in the Age of Digitization.- 4.Screen as Skin: The Somatechnics of Touchscreen Music Media.- 5. The ‘Creative Listener:’ Internet, Music, and the Computer-Bodymind Somatechnic.- 6. Future Bodies, Future Music.- 7. Conclusion: Music as Somatechné.