Reconfiguring the field of professional music: New doxa and known capital forms on digital platforms
Journal: Culture Practice & Europeanization
Year: 2025

Digital platforms are reshaping how career success is understood in the music industry. Existing research has mainly focused on the effects of platforms on music production, visibility, and professional practices, yet it has seldom explored how career success and capital are configured in platform environments. This conceptual article uses Bourdieu’s theoretical framework to discuss how digital indicators become taken for granted makers of career success in the digital music field. It also outli