Charles Fairchild

Pop Idols and Pirates (eBook, ePUB)

Mechanisms of Consumption and the Global Circulation of Popular Music

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The music industry has been waging significant battles in recent years, reacting to numerous inter-related crises provoked by globalization, digitalization and the ever more extensive commercialization of public culture. This book presents two inter-related cases of crisis and opportunity: the music industry's epic struggle over piracy and the 'Idol' phenomenon. Both are explicit attempts to control and justify the particular ways in which the music industry makes money from popular music through specific kinds of relationships with consumers. When understood in specific relation to the battle against piracy, Fairchild's analysis of 'Idol' and the emerging promotional cultures of the music industry it exhibits shows how multiple sites of consumption, and attempts to mediate and control the circulation of popular music, are being used to combat the foundational challenges facing the music industry.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. April 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317078395
• Artikelnr.: 49350593

Autorenporträt

Dr Charles Fairchild, Arts Music Unit, Sydney Conservatorium of Music, University of Sydney, Australia.

Inhaltsangabe

IntroductionIndustrial-Strength Strawmen
Part I All of the In-between
Chapter 1 The Acts and Spaces of Consumption
Chapter 2 The Medium and Materials of Popular Music
Part II Bridging the Distance between Production and Consumption
Chapter 3 Power and Property: CDs, MP3s, and SoundScan
Chapter 4 Mediating and Manufacturing the Investment in Desire
Part III The Spectacle as Consumption Environment
Chapter 5 Constructing the "Idol" Empire
Chapter 6 Building the Authentic Celebrity: The Structure of a Spectacle
Chapter 7 Becoming Who You Are: The Content of a Spectacle
conclusion Conclusion Why "Idol"?