Media Policy and Music Activity

List of contents

Preface 1 The music industry and music media—an introduction 2 Concepts, postulates, constraints and methods 3 Case study: Jamaica 4 Case study: Trinidad 5 Case study: Kenya 6 Case study: Tanzania 7 Case study: Cymru—Wales 8 Case study: Sweden 9 Conclusions

About the author

Krister Malm is Director of Musikmuseet in Stockholm, and Associate Professor of Musicology at Gothenburg University. Roger Wallis is BBC Correspondent in Sweden. Their pioneering research into the workings of the music industry was first published in the book Big Sounds from Small Peoples (Constable, 1984). Roger Wallis is the co-author, with Stanley Baran, of The Known World of Broadcast News (Routledge, 1990), an analysis of the broadcast news industry.

Summary

Case studies are combined with a broad theoretical approach to look at the relationship between policies governing the output of the music media and music activity in society.

Product details

• Authors: Krister Malm, Malm Krister, Roger Wallis, Wallis Roger
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.01.1993
• EAN: 9780415050197
• ISBN: 978-0-415-05019-7
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 234 mm x 24 mm
• Weight: 690 g
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Miscellaneous; History, Music, Media Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, Humanities, Media, Information & Communication Industries