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100 1 _aRogers, Jim,
_d1969-
245 1 4 _aThe death and life of the music industry in the digital age /
_cby Jim Rogers.
264 1 _aNew York :
_bBloomsbury Academic,
_c2013.
300 _a236 pages ;
_c22 cm
336 _atext
_2rdacontent
337 _aunmediated
_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
_2rdacarrier
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 _aDigital deliria and transformative hype -- Death by digital? -- Response strategies of the music industry -- Developments beyond the digital realm -- New rules for the new music economy? [Part One] -- New rules for the new music economy? [Part Two] -- Evolution, not revolution?
520 _aThe Death and Life of the Music Industry in the Digital Age challenges the conventional wisdom that the internet is 'killing' the music industry. While technological innovations (primarily in the form of peer-to-peer file-sharing) have evolved to threaten the economic health of major transnational music companies, Rogers illustrates how those same companies have themselves formulated highly innovative response strategies to negate the harmful effects of the internet. In short, it documents how the radical transformative potential of the internet is being suppressed by legal and organisational innovations. Grounded in a social shaping perspective, The Death and Life of the Music Industry in the Digital Age contends that the internet has not altered pre-existing power relations in the music industry where a small handful of very large corporations have long since established an oligopolistic dominance. Furthermore, the book contends that widespread acceptance of the idea that online piracy is rampant, and music largely 'free' actually helps these major music companies in their quest to bolster their power. In doing this, the study serves to deflate much of the transformative hype and digital 'deliria' that has accompanied the internet's evolution as a medium for mass communication.
650 0 _aSound recording industry
_xSocial aspects.
650 0 _aMusic and technology.
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