ABSTRACT
The economic geography of music is evolving as new digital technologies, organizational forms, market dynamics and consumer behavior continue to restructure the industry. This book is an international collection of case studies examining the spatial dynamics of today’s music industry. Drawing on research from a diverse range of cities such as Santiago, Toronto, Paris, New York, Amsterdam, London, and Berlin, this volume helps readers understand how the production and consumption of music is changing at multiple scales – from global firms to local entrepreneurs; and, in multiple settings – from established clusters to burgeoning scenes. The volume is divided into interrelated sections and offers an engaging and immersive look at today’s central players, processes, and spaces of music production and consumption. Academic students and researchers across the social sciences, including human geography, sociology, economics, and cultural studies, will find this volume helpful in answering questions about how and where music is financed, produced, marketed, distributed, curated and consumed in the digital age.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |8 pages
Introduction
part |30 pages
Recording
chapter |14 pages
Laptops, Pro Tools, and File Transfer Protocols
part |60 pages
Working
chapter |15 pages
Working Harder and Working Smarter
chapter |14 pages
Hip-Hop Tunity
chapter |14 pages
“Working at the Candy Factory”
part |60 pages
Playing
chapter |16 pages
Landscapes of Performance and Technological Change
chapter |14 pages
What's the “Newport Effect”?
part |62 pages
Distributing
chapter |16 pages
Exploring the “360 Degree” Blur
chapter |13 pages
More Than Just Bytes?
chapter |16 pages
Emotional Landscapes and the Evolution of Vinyl Record Retail
chapter |15 pages
Music Rights
part |42 pages
Promoting and Consuming