CS101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Miracle Whip, Quality Records, Sam Sniderman
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Music and the recording industry: primary features of industry, evolution of canadian recording industry. Feb 2, 2012: from labels to multinationals, 80s clone wars", 90s industry maturation, cancon, music and marketing. Popular music industry- primary features: profits, marketing costs, secondary markets, capital costs, technology, universal appeal. Global recording sales: universal music- 25. 9, sony-bmg- 25. 2% Musicians and industry: essential- creative personnel undertake and subsidize their own training, results of their training are without value until activities of large-scale cultural industries, including promotion and widespread distribution. Involving the creation of celebrity and conformity to forms and techniques deemed to have value within a particular market": which musician goes with which market. Normally rest upon informally organized cultures of music-related activity" (straw. 2004:244: 1950s to late 1960s: not record labels" , late 1960s- u. s. music companies set up branch plants" in canada, 1970s- canadian companies stay or specialize. Mass market labels: k-tel, quality records, songs were abridged to fit into albums.
