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Music and Capitalism : a history of the present
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"In this book, Timothy D. Taylor explores just how pervasively capitalism has shaped music over the last few decades. Examining changes in the production, distribution, and consumption of music, he...
"In this book, Timothy D. Taylor explores just how pervasively capitalism has shaped music over the last few decades. Examining changes in the production, distribution, and consumption of music, he offers an incisive critique of the music industry's shift in focus from creativity to profits, as well as stories of those who are laboring to find and make musical meaning in the shadows of the mainstream cultural industries. Taylor explores everything from the branding of musicians to the globalization of music to the emergence of digital technologies in music production and consumption. Drawing on interviews with industry insiders, musicians, and indie label workers, he traces both the constricting forces of bottom-line economics and the revolutionary emergence of the affordable home studio, the global internet, and the mp3 that have shaped music in different ways. A sophisticated analysis of how music is made, repurposed, advertised, sold, pirated, and consumed, Music and Capitalism is a must read for anyone who cares about what they are listening to, how, and why"--Provided by publisher.
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- English
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- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2015
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- 1 online resource (236 pages)
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- 9780226312026, 022631202X, 9780226311838, 022631183X, 9780226311975, 022631197X, 9780226311838
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- on1027566585
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-206) and index.
- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Audio and Video Examples -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Capitalism, Music, and Social Theory -- Music and Capitalism -- Western Neoliberal Capitalism as a Cultural System -- What Follows -- 1. A Brief History of Music and Capitalism before the Rise of Neoliberalism -- Production of Musical Commodities -- Artisans, Artists, Geniuses -- Social Class, Markets, and Cultural Consumption -- Conclusions -- 2. Neoliberal Capitalism and the Cultural Industries -- Ideologies of Neoliberal Capitalism -- The Cultural Industries as Industries
- 5. Singing in the Shadows of Neoliberal Capitalism -- Motivated by Music -- Burger Records: "Keeping the Teenage Spirit Alive" -- 6. Conclusions: Capitalism Is People, Too -- Value in the Informal Logic of Actual Life -- Notes -- References -- Unpublished Materials -- Discography -- Filmography -- Books and Articles -- Index
- The Conquest of Cool- and the Culture -- Increasing Commodification -- Plenitude -- Art and Commerce -- 3. Globalization -- Globalization, Neoliberal Capitalism, and the International Music Industry -- The Rise of "World Music" -- Connoisseurs, Collaborators, Curators -- Musicians in the Field of World Music in Neoliberal Capitalism -- Ownership -- 4. Digitalization -- New Sound Technologies: DIY Everything? -- Remixing, Co- Creating -- The Changing Nature of Work in the Commercial Music Industry -- Digitized Music as a New Form of Music Objectified -- Ambivalences and Critiques