Corporate life in the digital music industry : remaking the major record label from the inside out / Toby Bennett.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bennett, Toby, 1976- author.

Series:

Alternate takes (Bloomsbury (Firm))

Alternate Takes

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Music trade--History--21st century.

Music trade.

Music trade--Employees.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (265 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, [2024]

System Details:

text file HTML

Summary:

Drawing on a deep and long-term first-hand engagement with major labels in the early years of the 21st century, this book sheds new 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 back-office corporate employees. Doing so reveals the internal activities and conflicts that, while hidden from public view, enable processes of change: from paperwork, data systems, managerial pressures and redundancies to graduate training schemes, departmental politics and shared playlists, providing 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 that texture the conduct of work and organizational life.

Contents:

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

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781501387241

1501387243

9781501387258

1501387251

OCLC:

1417082613