1st Edition
Global Repertoires Popular Music Within and Beyond the Transnational Music Industry
192 Pages
by
Routledge
192 Pages
by
Routledge
192 Pages
by
Routledge
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With just four record companies controlling nearly 80 per cent of the world market in popular music, issues of globalization are evidently significant to our understanding of how and why popular music is made and distributed. As transnational industries seek to open up increasingly larger markets, the question of how local and regional music cultures can be sustained is a pressing one. To what... Read more
Contents: Preface; Introduction, Andreas Gebesmair; Structures and strategies of the transnational music and media industry: Global strategies and local markets: explaining Swedish music export success, Robert Burnett; The corporate strategies of the major record labels and the international imperative, Keith Negus; One planet - one music? MTV and globalization, Keith Roe and Gust de Meyer; Beyond the transnational music industry - the global use and abuse of popular music: Sampling the didjeridoo, Susanne Binas; Race, ethnicity and the production of Latin/o popular music, Deborah Pacini Hernandez; Popular music in ex-Yugoslavia between global participation and provincial seclusion, Alenka Barber-Kersovan; Globalization - localization, homogenization - diversification and other discordant trends: a challenge to music policy makers, Krister Malm; Music policy between safeguarding and chauvinism, Alfred Smudits; Approaches and methods: popular music research between ’production of culture’ and ’anthropology’: Up and down the music world. An anthropology of globalization, Joana Breidenbach and Ina Zukrigl; Globalization and communalization of music in the production perspective, Richard A. Peterson; Measurements of globalization: some remarks on sources and indicators, Andreas Gebesmair; Hubert von Goisern’s Austrian folk rock: how to analyse musical genre?, Harald Huber; Index.
Biography
Andreas Gebesmair
'Global Repertoires [is] not only interesting for the information and analysis [it] provides, [it is] as all books presenting research in progress are, stimulating because of the questions [it] brings to the reader's mind.' The World of Music
