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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