Corporate Life in the Digital Music Industry

Remaking the Major Record Label from the Inside Out

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

Av Toby Bennett, UK) Bennett, Dr. Toby (Research Fellow, University of Westminster, Matt Brennan

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Drawing on a deep and long-term first-hand engagement with major labels in the early years of the 21st century, this book sheds new 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 back-office corporate employees.Doing so reveals the internal activities and conflicts that, while hidden from public view, enable processes of change: from paperwork, data systems, managerial pressures and redundancies to graduate training schemes, departmental politics and shared playlists, providing 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 that texture the conduct of work and organizational life.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2024-09-19
Mått158 x 232 x 20 mm
Vikt560 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieAlternate Takes: Critical Responses to Popular Music
Antal sidor264
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781501387234

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Musikböcker inom Kultur
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In the post-Napster era, Big Music fragmented and recombined in infrastructures of digital catalogues, streaming platforms, and a new universe for licensing. Within them, Bennett opens our eyes to the thousands of workers who do the humdrum tasks of asset management while they cling to their roles sustaining the cultural power of a global creative industry. In the margins, Bennett points to the porous membrane between an academic critique of corporate popular music and the critical reflexivity within the industry’s corporate cultures.