Music in Orbit: Satellite Radio in the Streaming Space Age

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Univ of California Press, Mar 11, 2025 - Performing Arts - 318 pages
Years before the advent of music streaming, Sirius and XM established satellite radio services that attracted paying subscribers through their ever-expanding lineup of niche music channels and exclusive celebrity-hosted programming. Music in Orbit is the first book to explore how satellite radio bridges legacy broadcast music radio and streaming platforms, serving as both precursor and integral player in today's streaming media environment. Arguing for the ongoing significance of radio in the digital age and the pernicious effects of monopoly power on the vibrancy of contemporary music industries, Music in Orbit offers essential context for the serious problems now facing working musicians, music consumers, and music communities.
 

Contents

Music Radio
28
Targeting Subscribers in Satellite Radios
60
Perceived Value and Satellite Streams in Music
95
Disposable Music and Monopoly Power
129
The Celebrity Radio
155
The Transnational Technological
184
Embedded Radio and the Limits of Expansion
208
Notes
233
Bibliography
279
Index
293
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Brian Fauteux is Associate Professor of Popular Music and Media Studies at the University of Alberta and author of Music in Range: The Culture of Canadian Campus Radio.

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