This is the first major study of the music industry in the new millennium. Wikström provides an international overview of the music industry and its future prospects in the world of global entertainment. They illuminate the workings of the music industry, and capture the dynamics at work in the production of musical culture between the transnational media conglomerates, the independent music companies and the public.
The Music Industry will become a standard work on the music industry at the beginning of the 21st century. It will be of great interest to students and scholars of media and communication studies, cultural studies, popular music, sociology and economics. It will also be of great value to professionals in the music industry, policy makers, and to anyone interested in the future of music.
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"Patrik Wikstrom does a brilliant job of explaining the wide-ranging digital-driven changes taking place in the popular music industry. Until recently it was controlled by a very few multinational corporations, but now artists, independent producers, and fans are freer to create the musicscapes they desire."
Richard Peterson, Vanderbilt University
Introduction: Music in the Cloud.
Chapter 1: A Copyright Industry.
Chapter 2: Inside the Music Industry.
Chapter 3: Music and the Media.
Chapter 4: Making Music - An Industrial or Creative Process.
Chapter 5: The Social and Creative Music Fan,
Chapter 6: Future Sounds,
References.
Index.
End Notes.
