Description du livre
The music industry is going through a period of immense changebrought about in part by the digital revolution. What is the roleof music in the age of computers and the internet? How has themusic industry been transformed by the economic and technologicalupheavals of recent years, and how is it likely to change in thefuture?
This is the first major study of the music industry in the newmillennium. Wikström provides an international overview of themusic industry and its future prospects in the world of globalentertainment. They illuminate the workings of the music industry,and capture the dynamics at work in the production of musicalculture between the transnational media conglomerates, theindependent music companies and the public.
The Music Industry will become a standard work on themusic industry at the beginning of the 21st century. It will be ofgreat interest to students and scholars of media and communicationstudies, cultural studies, popular music, sociology and economics.It will also be of great value to professionals in the musicindustry, policy makers, and to anyone interested in the future ofmusic.