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Popular Music in the Post-Digital Age: Politics, Economy, Culture and Technology

Popular Music in the Post-Digital Age: Politics, Economy, Culture and Technology

by Leslie Gillon (Editor), Leslie Gillon (Author), Tony Rigg (Author), Ewa Mazierska (Author)

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Synopsis

Popular Music in the Post-Digital Age explores how changes in the economy and technology affect popular music for both the economy and culture at large. Citing Jacques Attali's theory that music runs parallel to human society, is structured like it, and changes when it does, this book presents a study of wider economic, political and cultural changes under the impact of neoliberalism. This allows us to understand not only the future developments in the music industry but also the value in treating the state of popular music as a litmus test to assess what will happen in the economy and in society. This collection of 13 case studies covers issues such as patronage, music education and curatorship and consumption, and aims to develop an understanding of the future of popular music within a global context.

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Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 304
 Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: 13 Dec 2018
ISBN 10: 1501338374
ISBN 13: 9781501338373
Book Overview: An examination of the ways in which the economy and technology affect the future of popular music in the contexts of marketing, curation, consumption, and music education

Media Reviews
Music industry is in a condition of permanent flux driven by music's seamless adaptation to digital innovation. The key tension in music industry as a practice is that digital application does not always chime with regulated ownership of intellectual property rights in music. This is an impressive collection in which all participants have worked in a focused way to specify how music industry is transformed by digitization. In a turbulent environment, this collection exhibits staying power and will be a useful point of reference for academics and students over a prolonged period. * Michael Jones, Senior Lecturer in Music, University of Liverpool, UK, and author of The Music Industries: From Conception to Consumption (2012) *
In an era of ever-expanding technological possibility and pace, time is an invaluable and irreplaceable resource. As such, how we listen and to what we listen becomes a nuanced and important question about how we understand each other and our relationship to the places we live. Popular Music in the Post-Digital Age provocatively explores this from multiple perspectives and ideas, asking critical questions about the continued evolution and role of one of humankind's most expressive and important languages - the language of music. * Burke Jam, Sound Artist, Composer, and Director of Digital Facilities at Portland State University, USA *
Author Bio
Ewa Mazierska is Professor of Film Studies at the University of Central Lancashire, UK. She has published over twenty monographs and edited collections on film and popular music, including Sounds Northern: Popular Music, Culture and Place in England's North (2018). Les Gillon is a researcher, musician and teacher at the University of Central Lancashire, UK. He is author of The Uses of Reason in the Evaluation of Artworks: Commentaries on the Turner Prize (2015). Tony Rigg has spent over 20 years managing music-related activities and occupying senior management roles in FTSE 250 and market-leading, privately-held organisations in the UK. He is also an artist and producer.