Publication details
Průmysl populární hudby v éře globalizace mediálních trhů
| Title in English | Popular Music Industry in the Age of Globalization of Media Markets |
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| Year of publication | 2001 |
| Type | Article in Proceedings |
| Conference | Média a realita 2001 |
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| Field | Sociology, demography |
| Keywords | popular music industry - media conglomerates - commodification - diversification of music products - subversive ideology |
| Description | The paper explores some of the major developmental features of the universe of popular music. These include concentration of music company ownership leading to oligopolic status-quo, the so-called Big Five; increasing flexibility of organization and management of music corporations/divisions in the environment of media (entertainment) conglomerates; the provision of synergic specially targeted promotional campaigns for products of exlusive artists; systemic adaptation to the digital era in the form of support for CD technology; changes in the legislative framework as well as control and commodification of the Internet sound space; increasing auto-referential rituals of prize-awarding; diversification of the types of published music records and also the reliable pacification of subversive ideological contents in mainstream popular music. |