The Death and Life of the Music Industry in the Digital Age

Name: The Death and Life of the Music Industry in the Digital Age
Brand: Bloomsbury 3PL
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By Jim Rogers

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The 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.

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Binding:: Paperback
Edition:: 1
Number of Pages:: 246
Release Date:: 2013-07-04
Publication Date:: 2013-07-04
Publisher:: Bloomsbury 3PL
Languages:: Original: English
ISBN10:: 1623560012
ISBN13:: 9781623560010
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:: [email protected]
Weight:: 315 g
Height:: 14 cm
Width:: 21.6 cm
Thickness:: 1.3 cm

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