Toby Bennett

Corporate Life in the Digital Music Industry

Remaking the Major Record Label from the Inside Out
Herausgeber: Brennan, Matt; Frith, Simon

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Drawing on a deep and long-term first-hand engagement with major labels in the early years of the 21st century, this book sheds novel light 'behind the scenes', at a time of drastic and far-reaching transformation. Refreshingly, it centres not on artists and the most powerful decision-makers but on everyday experiences of work and sense-making among back-office corporate employees. Doing so reveals the internal activities and conflicts that, while hidden from immediate public view, enable processes of change: from paperwork, data systems, managerial pressures and redundancies to graduate training schemes, departmental politics and shared playlists. Following some of these more mundane features provides a new route into understanding the broader cultures and infrastructures of the global recording industry. This oft-forgotten office work tells a different story of contemporary digital music - one more sensitive to the complex intersections of bureaucracy and enterprise, passion and critique, knowledge and experience, that texture the conduct of work and organizational life.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Juli 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9781501387227
• ISBN-10: 1501387227
• Artikelnr.: 67654843

Autorenporträt

Toby Bennett teaches and researches Media, Culture and Organization at the University of Westminster, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Acronyms Acknowledgements Introduction Part 1: Outside In 1.
Working for the Man? 2. Access All Areas 3. Big Music Part 2: Inside Out
4. Re-evaluation 5. Passion Work 6. Standardisation 7. Systems Work 8.
Professionalisation 9. Knowledge Work Conclusion: Everyone's a Critic
Appendices Notes Bibliography Index