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Corporate Life in the Digital Music Industry: Remaking the Major Record Label from the Inside Out

Corporate Life in the Digital Music Industry: Remaking the Major Record Label from the Inside Out

Hardcover

Series: Alternate Takes: Critical Responses to Popular Music

General MusicMusic BusinessMusic Recording & Reproduction

ISBN10: 1501387235
ISBN13: 9781501387234
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: Sep 19 2024
Pages: 264
Weight: 1.15
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Drawing on a deep and long-term first-hand engagement with major labels in the early years of the 21st century, this book sheds new light 'behind the scenes', at a time of drastic and far-reaching transformation. Refreshingly, it centres not on artists and the most powerful decision-makers but on everyday experiences of work and back-office corporate employees.

Doing so reveals the internal activities and conflicts that, while hidden from public view, enable processes of change: from paperwork, data systems, managerial pressures and redundancies to graduate training schemes, departmental politics and shared playlists, providing a new route into understanding the broader cultures and infrastructures of the global recording industry. This oft-forgotten office work tells a different story of contemporary digital music, one more sensitive to the complex intersections that texture the conduct of work and organizational life.

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