How Spotify Manufactures Gay Culture

Offset your carbon footprint on Wren: The first 100 people who sign up will have 10 extra trees planted in their name! PRESAVE MY ALBUM: Patreon: MERCH, LEARNING, AND BUSINESS INQUIRIES: Twitter: Tumblr: Discord: Do the vibes changer whether you’re listening to Ariana Grande, Taylor Swift, Harry Styles versus Ed Sheeran, U2, and Coldplay? The question of gay music is one that needs to be answered in long-form sociological video essay format. SOURCES------------ Spotify Editor Interviews*** Literature*** Distinction (1979) by Pierre Bourdieu Leisewitz, A & Musgrave, G (2022) Does Spotify Create Attachment? Algorithmic Playlists, Intermediation and the Artist-Fan Relationship, Culture Unbound: Journal of Current Cultural Research (Forthcoming) The Cultural Intermediaries Reader (2014) by Jennifer Smith Maguire and Julian Matthews Dhaenens, F., & Burgess, J. (2019). ‘Press play for pride’: The cultural logics of LGBTQ-themed playlists on Spotify. New Media & Society, 21(6), 1192–1211. Maguire, J. S., & Matthews, J. (2010). Cultural intermediaries and the media. Sociology Compass, 4(7), 405-416. Bourdieu, P. (2018). The forms of capital. In The sociology of economic life (pp. 78-92). Routledge. Grazian, D. (2009, December). Urban Nightlife, Social Capital, and the Public Life of Cities 1. In Sociological Forum (Vol. 24, No. 4, pp. 908-917). Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing Ltd. Mattson, G. (2015). Style and the value of gay nightlife: Homonormative placemaking in San Francisco. Urban Studies, 52(16), 3144-3159. Barrett, D. C., & Pollack, L. M. (2005). Whose gay community? Social class, sexual self‐expression, and gay community involvement. Sociological Quarterly, 46(3), 437-456. Daniele, M., Fasoli, F., Antonio, R., Sulpizio, S., & Maass, A. (2020). Gay voice: Stable marker of sexual orientation or flexible communication device?. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 49(7), 2585-2600. This video was sponsored by Wren.