
Corporate Life in the Digital Music Industry
Remaking the Major Record Label from the Inside Out
Series: Alternate Takes: Critical Responses to Popular Music;
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Product details:
- Publisher Bloomsbury Academic
- Date of Publication 19 September 2024
- Number of Volumes Paperback
- ISBN 9781501387227
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages256 pages
- Size 228x152x16 mm
- Weight 400 g
- Language English 647
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Long description:
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.
Table of Contents:
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