Contracts, Patronage and Mediation - The Articulation of Global Local in South African Recording Industry

Informationen zum Autor Tuulikki Pietilä is Lecturer in Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Helsinki, Finland. She is the author of the award-winning monograph Gossip, Markets, and Gender: How Dialogue Constructs Moral Value in Post-Socialist Kilimanjaro (2007). She has also published a number of articles on the world music industry and South African youth music. Klappentext This book studies the long-term developments in the South African recording industry and adds to the existing literature an understanding of the prevalence of informal negotiations over rights, rewards and power in the recording industry. It argues that patronage features often infiltrate the contractual relationships in the industry. Zusammenfassung This book studies the long-term developments in the South African recording industry and adds to the existing literature an understanding of the prevalence of informal negotiations over rights! rewards and power in the recording industry. It argues that patronage features often infiltrate the contractual relationships in the industry. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1. The South African Recording Industry 2. Recent Industry Developments 3. A Segmented Music Market and Attempts to Capture it 4. The Wholesaling and Retailing of Music 5. Negotiating Value in the Music Chain 6. Organizing Relationships in the Recording Industry 7. Continuities in Patronage Arrangements Conclusion

Product details

• Authors: Tuulikki Pietila, Tuulikki Pietilä
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.10.2015
• EAN: 9781137562319
• ISBN: 978-1-137-56231-9
• No. of pages: 250
• Series: Pop Music, Culture and Identity; Pop Music, Culture and Identit; Pop Music, Culture and Identity; Pop Music, Culture and Identit
• Subjects: Children's and young people's books > Non-fiction books / Non-fiction picture books > Miscellaneous; Humanities, art, music > Art; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Communication science; B, Music, Media Studies, Sociology, Society, Society & social sciences, Communication, The arts: general issues, Arts, Social Sciences, Social Sciences, general, Media and Communication, Palgrave Literature Collection, Children's Literature, Children’s & teenage literature studies: general, development;industry;media;mediation