How Technology Has Transformed, And Complicated, Music Fandom: Interview With Nancy Baym

Here’s a really interesting interview with Nancy Baym, who markets herself as an internet researcher these days but has a history of really interesting and groundbreaking work on fandom. This is about her new book, Playing to the Crowd: Musicians, Audiences and the Intimate Work of Connection, which looks at how technology has changed the intimate emotional interactions between musicians and their fans.