THE INTERNATIONAL RECORDING INDUSTRIES by Lee Marshall (Editor) ( 9780415603454 )

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THE INTERNATIONAL RECORDING INDUSTRIES

By:

Lee Marshall (Editor)

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0415603455

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9780415603454

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Pub. date:

3 October, 2012

Series:

Routledge Advances in Sociology

Pages:

240

Description:

This text offers a less Anglocentric and dynamic understanding of the recording industry. Its starting premise is the idea that the recording industry is not one thing but is, rather, a series of recording industries, locally organized and locally focused, both structured by and structuring the international industry.

Synopsis:

The recording industry has been a major focus of interest for cultural commentators throughout the twenty-first century. As the first major content industry to have its production and distribution patterns radically disturbed by the internet, the recording industry's content, attitudes and practices have regularly been under the microscope. Much of this discussion, however, is dominated by US and UK perspectives and assumes the 'the recording industry' to be a relatively static, homogeneous, entity. This book attempts to offer a broader, less Anglocentric and more dynamic understanding of the recording industry. It starting premise is the idea that the recording industry is not one thing but is, rather, a series of recording industries, locally organised and locally focused, both structured by and structuring the international industry. Seven detailed case studies of different national recording industries illustrate this fact, each of them specifically chosen to provide a distinctive insight into the workings of the recording industry.The expert contributions to this book provide the reader with a sense of the history, structure and contemporary dynamics of the recording industry in these specific territories, and counteract the Anglo-American bias of coverage of the music industry. The International Recording Industries will be valuable to students and scholars of sociology, cultural studies, media studies, cultural economics and popular music studies.

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10 black & white illustrations, 40 black & white tables, 1 black & white

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