Corporate Life in the Digital Music Industry
Remaking the Major Record Label from the Inside Out
Toby Bennett
- 264 pages
- English
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Corporate Life in the Digital Music Industry
Remaking the Major Record Label from the Inside Out
Toby Bennett
About This Book
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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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Acronyms
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I: Outside in
- Part II: Inside out
- Conclusion: Everyoneâs a critic
- Appendices
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index