Open AccessSongs from Overseas: Music Downloading as a Marker of Migration
Author(s) -
Dan Tidhar,
Matthew Woolhouse,
Jotthi Bansal
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
proceedings of the annual conference of cais
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2562-7589
DOI - 10.29173/cais1188
Subject(s) - popularity , upload , famine , history , media studies , sociology , psychology , world wide web , computer science , social psychology , archaeology
Findings from the Digital Music Lab in Association with Nokia at McMaster University are reported. Diasporas and migration patterns are studied by comparing the popularity of genres in their “mother” country, i.e. place of origin, with their popularity in subsequent host countries. The human stories that underlie these comparisons, whether related to work, war, famine, or simply the desire to “seek a better life” are, where possible, linked to the research findings.