Pop Music, Pop Culture

by Chris Rojek

Book Overview

What is happening to pop music and pop culture? Synthesizers, samplers and MDI systems have allowed anyone with basic computing skills to make music. Exchange is now automatic and weightless with the result that the High Street record store is dying. "MySpace," "Twitter" and "You Tube" are now more important publicity venues for new bands than the concert tour routine. Unauthorized consumption in the form of illegal downloading has created a financial...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0745642640
• ISBN13: 9780745642642
• Release Date: June 2011
• Publisher: Polity Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.7" x 9.6"