Hypebot Revisited: The Best of Bylin’s Essays Pt. 2

Kyle Bylin, Associate Editor

Aside from the two interviews I’ve published since my essay on MusicDNA, you’ll have to excuse my absence, as I’ve been working on a number of ideas that finally developed into a series of essays.  It all started with a simple question as to whether or not taste in music was developing at a much faster pace for those who were born digital than it would’ve for previous generations.  And, well, as you might imagine, that not so simple question developed into many more complicated questions.

Then a week turned into a month, and here we are.  To speed the creative process along and get some much needed help, I reached out to Refe Tuma over at Creative Destruction.  He was able to help me refine my insights, add in his own, and do some collaborative editing.  On Monday, be on the lookout for the first essay in this series called:  The Barriers of Music Consumption: Past and Present.  But, until then, here’s a look at some of my older essays:

–Trapped In Cognition: The Plight of the Digital Age
–Moral Panics and Music Journalism
–The Fate of a Format: Will MusicDNA Catch On?
–Song Stories: A People’s History of Popular Music

–A Tale of Two Industries: What Do Books and Music Have In Common?
–The Elsewhere Musician: Making Connections in a Fragmented World
–Interchangeable Identities: The Collision of Culture, Technology, and Self
–Music as Commerce: Understanding a Mindset
–The Language of Tribes: True Fans and Outsiders
–Hypebot Revisted: The Best Of Bylin's Essays
–The Digital Dilemma: Finding a Path to Salvation
–Minds for the Future: Why Digital Immersion Matters
–Why We Write Hypebot:  A Look Inside Our Heads
–Selling Sex: The “Other” Shiny Plastic Disc Business