Corporate Life in the Digital Music Industry

Remaking the Major Record Label from the Inside Out

AvToby Bennett,Matt Brennan

Häftad, Engelska, 2024

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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

Utgivningsdatum:2024-09-19
Mått:152 x 228 x 16 mm
Vikt:400 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Alternate Takes: Critical Responses to Popular Music
Antal sidor:264
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9781501387227

Utforska kategorier

Företagshistoria inom Ekonomi och Ledarskap
Musikböcker inom Kultur
Musiker, sångare och grupper inom Kultur

Mer om författaren

Toby Bennett teaches and researches Media, Culture and Organization at the University of Westminster, UK. He has previously worked in rights management and with labels, entrepreneurs and policy actors in arts, creative and music industries.

Recensioner i media

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.

Innehållsförteckning

List of AcronymsAcknowledgementsIntroductionPart 1: Outside In1. Working for the Man?2. Access All Areas3. Big MusicPart 2: Inside Out4. Re-evaluation5. Passion Work6. Standardisation7. Systems Work8. Professionalisation9. Knowledge WorkConclusion: Everyone’s a CriticAppendicesNotesBibliographyIndex