Global repertoires : popular music within and beyond the transnational music industry / edited by Andreas Gebesmair, Alfred Smudits.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gebesmair, Andreas.

Smudits, A.

Series:

Ashgate popular and folk music series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Popular music--History and criticism--Congresses.

Popular music.

Music trade--Congresses.

Music trade.

Globalization--Congresses.

Globalization.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

xi, 176 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Aldershot ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2001]

Summary:

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 extent does the global music market offer opportunities for the worldwide dissemination of local music within and beyond the major industry? The essays in this volume examine the structure and strategies of the transnational music industry, with its deployment of mass communication technologies including sound carriers, satellite broadcasting and the Internet. The book also explores local and individual experience of global music and this music's dissemination through migration and communities of interest, as well as the ideological and political use of different kinds of music. In contrast to recent arguments which posit an American imperialist dominance of popular music, the contributors to this volume find that the global repertoire of the major labels no longer represents the culture of a certain country but is fed by different sources. The essays here discuss how we can characterize this vast de-centered industry, and offer perspectives on the so-called 'international repertoire' that calls for a melodic structure, ballad forms, unaccented vocalisation and an image that has global recognition.

Notes:

Contains materials presented at a conference on music and globalization organized by the International Research Institute for Media, Communication and Cultural Development (Mediacult) and held Nov. 4-6, 1999 in Vienna, Austria.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0754605264

OCLC:

46704149