On the reproduction of the musical economy after the Internet
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A crisis of reproduction that beset the contemporary popular music industry from the late 1990s onwards is discussed. Explanations internal to the music industry identified the cause of the crisis as the rise of Internet piracy, although the emergence of software formats, such as MP3, and Internet distribution systems is more accurately described as a tipping point that focused a set of deeper structural problems for the industry related to changing forms of popular music consumption.
Publication Name: Media, Culture & Society
Subject: Mass communications
ISSN: 0163-4437
Year: 2005
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Long play: adult-oriented popular music and the temporal logics of the post-war sound recording industry in the USA
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The segmentation of mainstream audience/market formations, the rise of the album as the core commodity of the music industry, the growth of the back catalogue as the economic foundation that stabilizes the unpredictable nature of selling music popularity are analyzed. These are the key innovations that fundamentally transformed the music industry and the status of popular music as culture.
Publication Name: Media, Culture & Society
Subject: Mass communications
ISSN: 0163-4437
Year: 2004
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The effects of piracy upon the music industry: a case study of bootlegging
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The economic and social harm caused by bootlegging and its effects are explained. The interpretation of consumption of pirated music that affects the music industry is described to be impossible without understanding the meaning given by people.
Publication Name: Media, Culture & Society
Subject: Mass communications
ISSN: 0163-4437
Year: 2004
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