Labels: Making Independent Music

ISBN-13: 9781474280464 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 328 str.

Dominik Bartmanski; Ian Woodward

Opis

The music industry is dominated today by three companies. Outside of it, thousands of small independent record labels have developed despite the fact that digitalization made record sales barely profitable. How can those outsiders not only survive, but thrive within mass music markets? What makes them meaningful, and to whom?

Spis treści

List of Illustrations AcknowledgementsAbout the authors Cast of Interviewed Characters List of Featured Labels Prologue:You Can’t Put a Price on Freedom Introduction: Understanding Independent Labels1. Being Independent 2. Material Economy 3. Symbolic Economy 4. Urban Ecology Epilogue: Writing Independent Culture ReferencesIndex

O autorze

Dominik Bartmanski works in the Sociology Department at the Technical University of Berlin, Germany. Ian Woodward is Professor at the University of Southern Denmark, Denmark.