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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 338.4778
EAN num: 9780415092760
ISBN number: 0415092760
Label: Routledge
Manufacturer: Routledge
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 188
Printing Date: January 30, 1996
Publishing house: Routledge
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Popular music is with us everywhere. Beyond the walls of concert halls we now listen to music in our homes and as a sonic backdrop in cars, airplanes, restaurants and shopping malls. The Global Jukebox is the very first comprehensive study of the international industry which produces, markets and distributes popular music.
Now in the communications age the music industry is undergoing great change: facing up to the concentration of ownership and market share in the hands of the `big six' multinational companies, and constantly adopting technological innovations which transform the ways music is produced and consumed. Author Robert Burnett examines how the industry is producing global stars and products for an ever-growing international audience, closely examines the role of the largest and single most important producer and consumer for commercial music, the United States.
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I hate to give this book three stars, because I'm certain that at the time it was written it deserved five. The trouble is that much of the value of the book comes from an analysis of the existing market and predictions of future trends and the market has altered significantly since that time and we as readers know how some of those trends did (or didn't) emerge.
Shame, because the parts that are valuable of this book are really valuable-- largely that's the thinking about the influence and study of popular music and the way in which the industry tends to form and (re)form over time. The bibliography was also a pretty great thing.
Publishing house-- time for a new edition?
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This was a fascinating and intriguing book. It focuses on the 6 (which is now recently 5) major labels and their international/global market share. It focuses on Warner, Sony, EMI, BMG, MCA and Polygram; and how these transnationals BY FAR dominate the whole music industry worldwide. An oligopoly exists in the music industry. These transnationals have expanded globally as they realized that music is a GLOBAL business. Here is the 1997 worldwide market share: MCA=5.6% BMG=12.1%, Warner=13.1%, Sony=14.5%, Polygram=16.7%, EMI=15.3%, and the indie labels=22.8%. So, the majors control 77% of the world market! Wow! "Because they control so much of the entertainment industry, the oligopolist firms are able to prevent smaller, specialist firms from surviving in popular music niches...As small firms make considerable inroads into the market, large firms respond by absorbing them through merger or joint venture..." ...I have many, many books on the music business, but this book is definitely one of the best. It takes an intriguing look into the global aspect of the music industry in which these majors dominate. I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in the music business!
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