Corporate Life in the Digital Music Industry: Remaking the Major Record Label from the Inside Out

di Toby Bennett (Autore)

Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2024

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.

• Autore: Toby Bennett
• Editore: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
• Collana: Alternate Takes: Critical Responses to Popular Music
• Anno: 2024
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 264 p.
• Dimensioni: 229 x 152 mm
• EAN: 9781501387227

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