Corporate Life in the Digital Music Industry - Remaking the Major Record Label from the Inside Out

Drawing on a deep and long-term first-hand engagement with major labels in the early years of the 21st century, this book sheds novel light ‘behind the scenes’, at a time of drastic and far-reaching transformation. Refreshingly, it centres not on artists and the most powerful decision-makers but on everyday experiences of work and sense-making among back-office corporate employees. Doing so reveals the internal activities and conflicts that, while hidden from immediate public view, enable processes of change: from paperwork, data systems, managerial pressures and redundancies to graduate training schemes, departmental politics and shared playlists. Following some of these more mundane features provides a new route into understanding the broader cultures and infrastructures of the global recording industry. This oft-forgotten office work tells a different story of contemporary digital music – one more sensitive to the complex intersections of bureaucracy and enterprise, passion and critique, knowledge and experience, that texture the conduct of work and organizational life.

General

Imprint:	Bloomsbury Academic USA
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Alternate Takes: Critical Responses to Popular Music
Release date:	June 2024
Authors:	Toby Bennett (Research Fellow)
Dimensions:	229 x 152mm (L x W)
Pages:	208
ISBN-13:	978-1-5013-8722-7
Categories:	Books Promotions
LSN:	1-5013-8722-7
Barcode:	9781501387227

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