Blake Durham is a doctoral student at Worcester College, Oxford, supervised by Georgina Born. He received an MA in contemporary music studies from Goldsmiths, University of London and studied electro-acoustic music, technology and cultural industries in his undergraduate at Loyola University New Orleans.
His research focuses on practices of digital music circulation and consumption through ethnographic analysis of a private file-sharing community. This account is enriched through fieldwork amongst musicians, collectors and users of licensed streaming services in the Southern United States. He is interested in tracing the continuities between online and offline musical behavior and the unique socialities and theories of value engendered by digital modes of exchange.
