ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book discusses the cooperation of musical values and the implications for music stores in an age of mobile ubiquity. Indian music store owners who had previously distributed music on cassette and CD in different periods of music format fashion began to incorporate computers and mobile phones as a mode of distribution. Irfan explained that adding data to my phone's Secure Digital (SD) card would cost rupees 100 per gigabyte of data. In Bhopal, most of the store owners that worked with have started other, non-music businesses. Music recordings, like other commodities, emerge out of particular sets of human needs, enable participation in ritual practices, and have pragmatic associations in social life. Attali argued that a music recording is essentially the reification of time, but in the context of music stores, selling reified time requires expensive retail space.
