RT Conference Proceedings T1 Shaping the canon: Spotify and the construction of Spain’s música urbana A1 Navarro Flores, Iván A2 Farias, Marina de A2 Ávila, Guilherme A2 Costa, Rogério A2 Aragão, Thaís AB In the second half of the 2010s, a new music genre named música urbana has emerged in Spain, and a music world –a network of collaborative practices organized around the production, distribution and consumption– has sprouted around it. In this paper, we argue that music streaming services and playlisting practices are becoming a new kind of sociotechnical gatekeeper that influences the shaping of music canons in unprecendented ways. We will focus on Spotify in order to point out methodological challenges and proposals suitable to empirically determine sociotechnical actor’s influence on popular music genre formation. SN 978-65-990643-3-3 YR 2022 FD 2022 LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/89019 UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/89019 LA eng NO Navarro Flores, I. (2021). Shaping The Canon: Spotify and the Construction of Spain’s música urbana. 10º ENCONTRO DE PESQUISADORXS EM COMUNICAÇÃO E MÚSICA: “Playlists das Diversidades”. https://redemusicom.files.wordpress.com/2022/01/2021_ivacc81n-navarro_gt-02.pdf NO Ministerio de Universidades, Ciencia e Innovación (España) DS Docta Complutense RD 6 abr 2025