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This collection of interviews captures a period of historic change
for the global music business along with a wealth of professional
knowledge that extends from the late 1960s through to late 2012
when the interviews were conducted. They record the experiences and
insights of people who helped to shape a global business that is
quickly passing into history and transforming into something
entirely new, often because of decisions the interviewees have been
directly involved in making. The material includes the aesthetic,
artistic, technical, commercial, legal, and strategic aspects of
the music industry. What is said is timeless in its historical
significance for the music business and in its relevance for
researchers engaged in studies on the dynamics of change in the
global commercial music landscape.
This book traces a century of militarised communication that began
in the United States in April, 1917, with the institution of the
Committee on Public Information (CPI), headed by George Creel and
tasked with persuading a divided US public to enter World War I.
Creel achieved an historic feat of communication: a nationalising
mass mediation event well before any instantaneous mass media
technologies were available. The CPI's techniques and strategies
have underpinned marketing, public relations, and public diplomacy
practices ever since. The book argues that the CPI's influence
extends unbroken into the present day, as it provided the
communicative and attitudinal bases for a new form of political
economy, a form of corporatism, that would come to its fullest
flower in the "globalisation" project of the mid-1990s.
This book traces a century of militarised communication that began
in the United States in April, 1917, with the institution of the
Committee on Public Information (CPI), headed by George Creel and
tasked with persuading a divided US public to enter World War I.
Creel achieved an historic feat of communication: a nationalising
mass mediation event well before any instantaneous mass media
technologies were available. The CPI's techniques and strategies
have underpinned marketing, public relations, and public diplomacy
practices ever since. The book argues that the CPI's influence
extends unbroken into the present day, as it provided the
communicative and attitudinal bases for a new form of political
economy, a form of corporatism, that would come to its fullest
flower in the "globalisation" project of the mid-1990s.
Dare to Flee: The Last of the Bushmen is the story of Xai, a San
(Bushmen) tracker, who is drafted into the South African Defence
Force to help rescue sixty school children who have been forcibly
abducted by a group of armed terrorists. In the ensuing chase,
Xai's closest friend is killed by the ruthless leader of the
insurgents. Xai is distraught and vows to track down the killer and
extract revenge. The drama is played out in 1994 against a backdrop
of the beautiful, though arid, Khalahari Desert, known colloquially
as the "Thirst Lands." Joining forces with a group of San hunters
and their families, Xai discovers that he is now the hunted.
Meanwhile, the Botswana Government has embarked on a scheme to
remove Bushmen from the Botswana portion of the Khalahari. They are
to be relocated to settlement camps, far from the traditional
grounds they have occupied for 20,000 years. The reason? The
government wants to mine the diamonds discovered there. About the
Author: Phil Graham grew up in South Africa and joined the British
South Africa Police in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe). Now retired, he
lives with his wife in the rolling hills in KwaZulu Natal, South
Africa. He wrote the book using experiences gleaned during the
Rhodesian bush war to tell "the plight of the current day Bushmen
in Southern Africa." He is writing the sequel. Publisher's website:
http://sbpra.com/PhilGraham
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