PART 1 The Pre-Digital Virtual
"Seventeenth Heaven": Virtual Listening and its Discontents / Christian Lloyd
"Nothing is Real": The Beatles as Virtual Performers / Philip Auslander and Ian Inglis
Tom, Jerry and the Virtual Virtuoso / Sheila Whiteley
Bring that Beat Back: Sampling as Virtual Collaboration / Rowan Oliver
An Analysis of Virtuality in the Creation and Reception of the Music of Frank Zappa / Paul Carr
PART 2 Vocaloids, Holograms and Virtual Pop Stars
Vocaloids and Japanese Virtual Vocal Performance: The Cultural Heritage and Technological Futures of Vocal Puppetry / Louise H. Jackson and Mike Dines
Hatsune Miku and Japanese Virtual Idols /Rafal Zaborowski
Hatsune Miku, 2.0Pac and Beyond: Rewinding and Fast-Forwarding the Virtual Pop Star / Thomas Conner
"Feel Good" with Gorillaz and "Reject False Icons": The Fantasy Worlds of the Virtual Group and their Creators / Shara Rambarran
PART 3 Second Life
Avatar Rockstars: Constructing Musical Personae in Virtual Worlds / Trevor S. Harvey
Performing Live in Second Life / Justin Gagen and Nicholas Cook
Live Opera Performance in Second Life: Challenging Producers, Performers and the Audience / Marco Antonio Chávez-Aguayo
PART 4 Authorship, Creativity and Musicianship
We Are, The Colors: Collaborative Narration and the Experimental Construction of a Non-Existent Band / Alon Ilsar and Charles Fairchild
Music in Perpetual Beta: Composition, Remediation, and "Closure" / Paul Draper and Frank Millward
Justin Bieber Featuring Slipknot: Consumption as Mode of Production / Ragnhild Brøvig-Hanssen
Human After All: Understanding Negotiations of Artistic Identity through the Music of Daft Punk / Cora S. Palfy
Virtual Bands: Recording Music Under the Big Top / David Tough
PART 5 Communities and the World-Wide-Web
"Uploading" to Carnegie Hall: The First YouTube Symphony Orchestra / Shzr Ee Tan
The Listener as Remixer: Mix Stems in Online Fan Community and Competition Contexts / Samantha Bennett
Sample Sharing: Virtual Laptop Ensemble Communities / Benjamin O'Brien
Stone Tapes: Ghost Box, Nostalgia, and Post-War England / David Pattie
From Hypnagogia to Distroid: Postironic Musical Renderings of Personal Memory / Adam Trainer
Bands in Virtual Spaces, Social Networking and Masculinity / Danijela Bogdanovic
PART 6 Sonic Environments and Musical Experience
From Environmental Sound to Virtual Environment Enhancing: Consuming Ambiance as Listening Practice / Thomas Brett
App Music / Jeremy Wade Morris
Alternative Virtuality: Independent Micro Labels Facing the Ideological Challenge of Virtual Music Culture: The Case of Finnish Ektro Records / Juho Kaitajärvi-Tiekso
Everybody Knows There is Here: Surveying the Indexi-Local in CBC Radio 3 / Michael Audette-Longo
Mind Usurps Program: Virtuality and the "New Machine Aesthetic" of Electronic Dance Music / Benjamin Halligan
PART 7 Participatory Culture and Fundraising
Virtual Music, Virtual Money: The Impact of Crowdfunding Models on Creativity, Authorship and Identity / Mark Thorley
With a Little Help from My Friends, Family and Fans: DIY, Participatory Culture and Social Capital in Music Crowdfunding / Francesco D'Amato
Music and Crowdfunded Websites: Digital Patronage and Artist-Fan Interactivity / Justin Williams and Ross Wilson
PART 8 Authors' Blog: Final Thoughts on Music and Virtuality / Edited by Paul Carr
PART 9 Glossary / Edited by Shara Rambarran
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