Toby Bennett

Corporate Life in the Digital Music Industry (eBook, PDF)

Remaking the Major Record Label from the Inside Out

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. August 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781501387258
• Artikelnr.: 72253903

Autorenporträt

Toby Bennett teaches and researches Media, Culture and Organization at the University of Westminster, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Acronyms Acknowledgements Introduction Part 1: Outside In 1.
Working for the Man? 2. Access All Areas 3. Big Music Part 2: Inside Out
4. Re-evaluation 5. Passion Work 6. Standardisation 7. Systems Work 8.
Professionalisation 9. Knowledge Work Conclusion: Everyone's a Critic
Appendices Notes Bibliography Index