Music and capitalism : a history of the present / Timothy D. Taylor.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Taylor, Timothy Dean, author.

Series:

Chicago studies in ethnomusicology.

Chicago studies in ethnomusicology: big issues in music

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Music trade.

Music--Economic aspects.

Music.

Music--Social aspects.

Music and globalization.

Capitalism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (236 p.)

Place of Publication:

Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2016.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

iTunes. Spotify. Pandora. With these brief words one can map the landscape of music today, but these aren’t musicians, songs, or anything else actually musical—they are products and brands. In this book, Timothy D. Taylor explores just how pervasively capitalism has shaped music over the last few decades. Examining changes in the production, distribution, and consumption of music, he offers an incisive critique of the music industry’s shift in focus from creativity to profits, as well as stories of those who are laboring to find and make musical meaning in the shadows of the mainstream cultural industries. Taylor explores everything from the branding of musicians to the globalization of music to the emergence of digital technologies in music production and consumption. Drawing on interviews with industry insiders, musicians, and indie label workers, he traces both the constricting forces of bottom-line economics and the revolutionary emergence of the affordable home studio, the global internet, and the mp3 that have shaped music in different ways. A sophisticated analysis of how music is made, repurposed, advertised, sold, pirated, and consumed, Music and Capitalism is a must read for anyone who cares about what they are listening to, how, and why.

Contents:

Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; List of Audio and Video Examples; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Capitalism, Music, and Social Theory; Music and Capitalism; Western Neoliberal Capitalism as a Cultural System; What Follows; 1. A Brief History of Music and Capitalism before the Rise of Neoliberalism; Production of Musical Commodities; Artisans, Artists, Geniuses; Social Class, Markets, and Cultural Consumption; Conclusions; 2. Neoliberal Capitalism and the Cultural Industries; Ideologies of Neoliberal Capitalism; The Cultural Industries as Industries

The Conquest of Cool- and the CultureIncreasing Commodification; Plenitude; Art and Commerce; 3. Globalization; Globalization, Neoliberal Capitalism, and the International Music Industry ; The Rise of "World Music"; Connoisseurs, Collaborators, Curators; Musicians in the Field of World Music in Neoliberal Capitalism; Ownership; 4. Digitalization; New Sound Technologies: DIY Everything?; Remixing, Co- Creating; The Changing Nature of Work in the Commercial Music Industry; Digitized Music as a New Form of Music Objectified; Ambivalences and Critiques

5. Singing in the Shadows of Neoliberal CapitalismMotivated by Music; Burger Records: "Keeping the Teenage Spirit Alive"; 6. Conclusions: Capitalism Is People, Too; Value in the Informal Logic of Actual Life; Notes; References; Unpublished Materials; Discography; Filmography; Books and Articles; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780226312026

022631202X

OCLC:

1027566585