40: All the things Spotify didn't want you to know but Liz Pelly found out

I know a ton of people, from when I started researching in 2021, at public libraries around the United States and Canada that have been working on local music streaming programmes, where they pay small flat fees to local artists to license their music for these small-scale, locally focused music streaming programmes.

It seems to me that there are a lot of forces in the music business whose goal is to provide content as cheaply as possible. I hate the word ‘content’, but it’s what they use. They’ve been engaged in all these different processes of trying to reduce the cost of content, and it seems realistic to imagine that there will probably be other schemes tha... See more

To me, it’s not a problem of access to music. The problem is more like the way in which convenience culture has shaped a specific idea of what music is and what its purpose is.