{"id":2026,"date":"2014-08-11T08:37:09","date_gmt":"2014-08-11T15:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/?p=2026"},"modified":"2014-08-11T08:37:09","modified_gmt":"2014-08-11T15:37:09","slug":"is-spotify-killing-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2014\/08\/is-spotify-killing-music.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Is Spotify Killing Music?&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[contextly_auto_sidebar id=&#8221;AJwkTxpSjSsEeL7n5JFPH23s6m8blcVb&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p>TWO descendants of Woody Guthrie and John Steinbeck make a good illustration of what&#8217;s happened to the lives of musicians lately. A new <a title=\"ST on Spotify on TakePart\" href=\"http:\/\/www.takepart.com\/feature\/2014\/08\/07\/spotify-killing-music\" target=\"_blank\">story<\/a> &#8212; co-written by yours truly &#8212; up on TakePart looks at how musicians are being proletarianized, and I don&#8217;t just mean the lyrics.<\/p>\n<p>The story &#8212; written with Kathleen Sharp &#8212; weaves between a look at the musical duo Sarah Lee Guthrie and Johnny Irion and the larger state of musicians in the age of streaming.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/220px-Woody_Guthrie_2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2027\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/220px-Woody_Guthrie_2.jpg\" alt=\"220px-Woody_Guthrie_2\" width=\"220\" height=\"203\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cMusic is being treated as digital trash,\u201d said Rebecca Gates, one-half of the \u201990s indie band the Spinanes who now records as a solo artist. \u201cBut companies are getting money and building their identities on it. It\u2019s horrifying.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Musicians\u2019 argument isn\u2019t with streaming per se. \u201cIt\u2019s the fact that everyone gets paid <em>except<\/em> the music creators,\u201d said country singer-songwriter Rosanne Cash, who has recorded 13 albums since the 1970s. \u201cWe are creating a culture where content creators are a new servant class, and paid as such.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>For what it&#8217;s worth, Sharp wrote most of this piece; I mostly provided the context. In any case, please check it out.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[contextly_auto_sidebar id=&#8221;AJwkTxpSjSsEeL7n5JFPH23s6m8blcVb&#8221;] TWO descendants of Woody Guthrie and John Steinbeck make a good illustration of what&#8217;s happened to the lives of musicians lately. A new story &#8212; co-written by yours truly &#8212; up on TakePart looks at how musicians are being proletarianized, and I don&#8217;t just mean the lyrics. The story &#8212; written with Kathleen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[624,639,34,58,616,585,210],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2026","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-disruption","7":"category-california","8":"category-literary","9":"category-music","10":"category-music-streaming","11":"category-steinbeck","12":"category-woody-guthrie","13":"entry","14":"has-post-thumbnail"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2026\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}