Producing pop : culture and conflict in the popular music industry
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Producing pop : culture and conflict in the popular music industry
E. Arnold , Distributed in the USA by Routledge, Chapman, and Hall, 1992
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [161]-168) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This work provides a behind-the-scenes analysis of the world's major entertainment industries. Focusing on the recording industry personnel who often remain invisible behind the star names and audience styles, it challenges the simplistic assumption that pop music is merely determined by corporate interests, and argues against writers who portray the music business as a cultural assembly line. Drawing on extensive interviews and research within the industry, Keith Negus describes how artists are discovered, how recordings and videos are produced, and how artists are promoted through radio, television, magazines, clubs and personal appearances.
Table of Contents
- Introduction: between the artist and audience
- feeding the world: popular music and the global entertainment industry
- music machines: technology and popular music
- priorities and prejudice: A&R and the acquisition of artists
- images, identities and audiences: marketing and artist development
- studios and videos: the production of sound of vision
- promotional war games: pop radio in Britain and America
- media matchmakers: publications, performances - stores and dance floors
- between success and failure: collaboration and conflict in the recording industry
- conclusion: commerce, chaos and cultural change. Appences: a note about the recording industry statistics
- world sales of records and tapes 1990.
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