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| Title: | Dirty Little Secrets of the Record Business
: Why So Much Music You HEAR Sucks |
| Author: | Hank Bordowitz |
| ISBN: | 1556526431 : 9781556526435 |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Size: | 155x230mm |
| Pages: | 330 |
| Weight: | .604 Kg. |
| Published: | IPG (Chicago Review Press) - January 2007 |
| List Price: | 16.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: | In Print |
| Subjects: | Music industry: MUSIC |
For disgruntled music fans wondering why music played on the radio is not only worse now than in the past but also not nearly as revelatory as it once was, this book presents a detailed discussion of how the record business fouled its own livelihood. This insightful dissection covers numerous aspects of the industry's failures and shortcomings, including why stockholders play an important role, how radio went from an art to a science and what was lost in that change, how the record companies alienated their core audience, why file sharing might not be the bogeyman that the record industry would have people think, technology's effects on what and how music is heard, and dozens of other reasons that add up to the record industry's current financial and artistic woes. With eye-opening observations culled from extensive interviews, this exposé offers insights into how this multi-billion-dollar industry is run and why it's losing so much money.
Part I: Playback and Payback - How the Record Business Drowned in its Own Success; Part II: The Messy Suicide of Commercial Radio; Part III: Retailing Records; Part IV: Technology; Part V: We, the Audience; Part VI: Money.
