List of Figures and TablesCompanion Website and List of Musical ExamplesList of ContributorsAcknowledgementsAndy Bennett: PrefaceSheila Whiteley: IntroductionPART 1 The Pre-Digital VirtualIntroduction1. Christian Lloyd: In Seventeenth Heaven: Virtual Listening and its Discontents2. Philip Auslander and Ian Inglis: Nothing is Real: The Beatles as Virtual Performers3. Sheila Whiteley: Tom, Jerry and the Virtual Virtuoso4. Rowan Oliver: Bring that Beat Back: Sampling as Virtual Collaboration5. Paul Carr: An Analysis of Virtuality in the Creation and Reception of the Music and Persona of Frank ZappaPART 2 Vocaloids, Holograms and Virtual Pop StarsIntroduction6. Louise H. Jackson and Mike Dines: Vocaloids and Japanese Virtual Vocal Performance: The Cultural Heritage and Technological Futures of Vocal Puppetry7.
Rafal Zabrowoski: Hatsune Miku and Japanese Virtual Idols8. Thomas Conner: Hatsune Miku, 2.0Pac and Beyond: Rewinding and Fast-Forwarding the Virtual Pop Star9. Shara Rambarran: "Feel Good" with Gorillaz and "Reject False Icons": The Fantasy Worlds of the Virtual Group and their CreatorsPART 3 Second LifeIntroduction10. Trevor S. Harvey: Avatar Rockstars: Constructing Musical Personae in Virtual Worlds11. Justin Gagen and Nicholas Cook: Performing Live in Second Life12. Marco Antonio Chavez-Aguayo: Live Opera Performance in Second Life: Challenging Producers, Performers and the AudiencePART 4 Authorship, Creativity and MusicianshipIntroduction13.
Alon Ilsar and Charles Fairchild: We Are, The Colors: Collaborative Narration and the Experimental Construction of a Non-Existent Band14. Paul Draper and Frank Millward: Music in Perpetual Beta: Composition, Remediation, and 'Closure'15. Ragnhild Brovig-Hanssen: Justin Bieber Featuring Slipknot: Consumption as Mode of Production16. Cora S. Palfy: Human After All: Understanding Negotiations of Artistic Identity through the Music of Daft Punk17. David Tough: Virtual Bands: Recording Music Under the Big TopPART 5 Communities and the World-Wide-WebIntroduction18. Shzr Ee Tan: "Uploading" to Carnegie Hall: The First YouTube Symphony Orchestra19. Samantha Bennet: The Listener as Remixer: Mix Stems in Online Fan Community and Competition Contexts20.
Benjamin O'Brien: Sample Sharing: Virtual Laptop Ensemble Communities21. David Pattie: Stone Tapes: Ghost Box, Nostalgia, and Post-War England22. Adam Trainer: Hypnagogia, Hauntology, Chillwave: Post-Ironic Musical Renderings of Personal Memory23. Danijela Bogdanovic: Bands in Virtual Spaces, Social Networking and MasculinityPART 6 Sonic Environments and Musical ExperienceIntroduction24. Thomas Brett: From Environmental Sound To Virtual Environment Enhancing: Consuming Ambiance as Listening Practice25. Jeremy Wade Morris: App Music26. Juho Kaitajervi-Tiekso: Alternative Virtuality. Independent Micro Labels Facing the Ideological Challenge of Virtual Music Culture: The Case of Finnish Ektro Records27.
Michael Audette-Longo: Everybody Knows There is Here: Surveying the Indexi-Local in CBC Radio 328. Benjamin Halligan: Mind Usurps Program: Virtuality and the "New Machine Aesthetic" of Electronic Dance MusicPART 7 Participatory Culture and FundraisingIntroduction29. Mark Thorley: Virtual Music, Virtual Money: The Impact of Crowdfunding Models on Creativity, Authorship and Identity30. Francesco D'Amato: With a Little Help From My Friends, Family and Fans. DIY, Participatory Culture and Social Capital in Music Crowdfunding31. Justin Williams and Ross Wilson: Music and Crowdfunded Websites: Digital Patronage and Artist-Fan InteractivityPART 8 Authors' Blog: Final Thoughts on Music and VirtualityPaul Carr: PART 9 GlossaryShara Rambarran: Index.