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Drawing on a deep and long-term first-hand engagement with major labels in the early years of the 21st century, this book sheds new light behind the scenes', at a time of drastic and far-reaching transformation. Refreshingly, it centres not on artists and the most powerful decision-makers but on everyday experiences of work and back-office corporate employees.

Doing so reveals the internal activities and conflicts that, while hidden from public view, enable processes of change: from paperwork, data systems, managerial pressures and redundancies to graduate training schemes, departmental politics and shared playlists, providing a new route into understanding the broader cultures and infrastructures of the global recording industry. This oft-forgotten office work tells a different story of contemporary digital music , one more sensitive to the complex intersections that texture the conduct of work and organizational life.

Corporate Life in the Digital Music Industry

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    A Paperback by Dr. Toby Bennett

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      Publisher Bloomsbury
      Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
      Published 9/19/2024
      ISBN-13 9781501387227
      978-1501387227
      ISBN-10 1501387227
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      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Drawing on a deep and long-term first-hand engagement with major labels in the early years of the 21st century, this book sheds new light behind the scenes', at a time of drastic and far-reaching transformation. Refreshingly, it centres not on artists and the most powerful decision-makers but on everyday experiences of work and back-office corporate employees.

      Doing so reveals the internal activities and conflicts that, while hidden from public view, enable processes of change: from paperwork, data systems, managerial pressures and redundancies to graduate training schemes, departmental politics and shared playlists, providing a new route into understanding the broader cultures and infrastructures of the global recording industry. This oft-forgotten office work tells a different story of contemporary digital music , one more sensitive to the complex intersections that texture the conduct of work and organizational life.

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