Pop Idols and Pirates: Mechanisms of Consumption and the Global Circulation of Popular Music

by Charles Fairchild

Book Overview

The music industry has been waging some very significant battles in recent years, reacting to numerous inter-related crises provoked by globalization, digitalization and the ever more extensive commercialization of public culture. These struggles are viewed by many as central to the survival of the central mediators in the consumption of popular music. These battles are not just against piracy and the sharing of digital song files on the internet...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138265691
• ISBN13: 9781138265691
• Release Date: November 2016
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.61 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"