Andrew Leyshon is Professor of Economic Geography and Head of the School of Geography (2011-2015), University of Nottingham. He has authored and edited several books and published over 100 academic papers and chapters. He was Editor-in-Chief of Geoforum between 1995-2006, has presented over 90 conference papers and seminars, been a Principal Investigator on six major Economic and Social Research Council grants. He was, until 2012, Deputy Director of the Financial Services Research Forum at Nottingham University Business School. He is a member of the Editorial Board of Environment and Planning A, and of the Editorial Advisory Board of Economy and Society.In 2007 he was elected as an Academician of the Academy of Social Sciences and he is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society.

Leyshon has produced a highly relevant book in a field that moves very quickly. This is quite an accomplishment.He has been able to connect the dots and outlines a story of the music industry in terms that allow for a fuller understanding of the dynamics at work in a very important moment in time. In this respect, this book will be relevant for a long time since it asked a historical question and provided an ultimately historical account through the apparatus of economic geography. Leyshon has produced a book that speaks to the work of authors like John Alderman (2001) and provides a useful and timely book end to some of the most important events in the restructuring of the music industry in the late 20th and early 21st centuries

• 1. Crisis? What Crisis? ; 2. Time-Space (and Digital) Compression: Software Formats, Musical Networks, and the Reorganization of the Music Industry ; 3. Scary Monsters? Software Formats, Peer-to-Peer Networks, and the Spectre of the Gift ; 4. On the Reproduction of the Musical Economy after the Internet ; 5. The Software Slump?: Digital Music, the Democratization of Technology, and the Decline of the Recording Studio Sector Within the Musical Economy ; 6. A Social Experiment in the Musical Economy: Terra Firma, EMI and Calling Creativity to Account ; 7. Afterword

Andrew Leyshon is Professor of Economic Geography and Head of the School of Geography (2011-2015), University of Nottingham. He has authored and edited several books and published over 100 academic papers and chapters. He was Editor-in-Chief of Geoforum between 1995-2006, has presented over 90 conference papers and seminars, been a Principal Investigator on six major Economic and Social Research Council grants. He was, until 2012, Deputy Director of the Financial Services Research Forum at Nottingham University Business School. He is a member of the Editorial Board of Environment and Planning A, and of the Editorial Advisory Board of Economy and Society.In 2007 he was elected as an Academician of the Academy of Social Sciences and he is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society.

Leyshon has produced a highly relevant book in a field that moves very quickly. This is quite an accomplishment.He has been able to connect the dots and outlines a story of the music industry in terms that allow for a fuller understanding of the dynamics at work in a very important moment in time. In this respect, this book will be relevant for a long time since it asked a historical question and provided an ultimately historical account through the apparatus of economic geography. Leyshon has produced a book that speaks to the work of authors like John Alderman (2001) and provides a useful and timely book end to some of the most important events in the restructuring of the music industry in the late 20th and early 21st centuries

• 1. Crisis? What Crisis? ; 2. Time-Space (and Digital) Compression: Software Formats, Musical Networks, and the Reorganization of the Music Industry ; 3. Scary Monsters? Software Formats, Peer-to-Peer Networks, and the Spectre of the Gift ; 4. On the Reproduction of the Musical Economy after the Internet ; 5. The Software Slump?: Digital Music, the Democratization of Technology, and the Decline of the Recording Studio Sector Within the Musical Economy ; 6. A Social Experiment in the Musical Economy: Terra Firma, EMI and Calling Creativity to Account ; 7. Afterword

Andrew Leyshon is Professor of Economic Geography and Head of the School of Geography (2011-2015), University of Nottingham. He has authored and edited several books and published over 100 academic papers and chapters. He was Editor-in-Chief of Geoforum between 1995-2006, has presented over 90 conference papers and seminars, been a Principal Investigator on six major Economic and Social Research Council grants. He was, until 2012, Deputy Director of the Financial Services Research Forum at Nottingham University Business School. He is a member of the Editorial Board of Environment and Planning A, and of the Editorial Advisory Board of Economy and Society.In 2007 he was elected as an Academician of the Academy of Social Sciences and he is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society.

Leyshon has produced a highly relevant book in a field that moves very quickly. This is quite an accomplishment.He has been able to connect the dots and outlines a story of the music industry in terms that allow for a fuller understanding of the dynamics at work in a very important moment in time. In this respect, this book will be relevant for a long time since it asked a historical question and provided an ultimately historical account through the apparatus of economic geography. Leyshon has produced a book that speaks to the work of authors like John Alderman (2001) and provides a useful and timely book end to some of the most important events in the restructuring of the music industry in the late 20th and early 21st centuries

• 1. Crisis? What Crisis? ; 2. Time-Space (and Digital) Compression: Software Formats, Musical Networks, and the Reorganization of the Music Industry ; 3. Scary Monsters? Software Formats, Peer-to-Peer Networks, and the Spectre of the Gift ; 4. On the Reproduction of the Musical Economy after the Internet ; 5. The Software Slump?: Digital Music, the Democratization of Technology, and the Decline of the Recording Studio Sector Within the Musical Economy ; 6. A Social Experiment in the Musical Economy: Terra Firma, EMI and Calling Creativity to Account ; 7. Afterword