Climbing the Charts - What Radio Airplay Tells Us About the Diffusion of Innovation

Zusatztext " Climbing the Charts represents an important contribution to the sociological study of diffusion and music. In the end! we know much more about how innovations diffuse and Rossman updates our understanding of gatekeeping in the music industry." ---Alexandre Frenette! Sociologica Informationen zum Autor Gabriel Rossman is assistant professor of sociology at the University of California! Los Angeles. There is a lot to recommend about this book. Rossman excels at balancing methodological details to satisfy the academic reader and intuitive explanations of techniques and results for the nonacademic reader. The book also takes on theories from various areas, and the author does not play favorites. It's clear he has a genuine interest in identifying the true mechanisms, which he distills in his writing. -- Brandy Aven ASA Economic Sociology Newsletter Zusammenfassung Despite the growth of digital media, traditional FM radio airplay still remains the essential way for musicians to achieve commercial success. This book examines how songs rise, or fail to rise, up the radio airplay charts. It shows that hits spread rapidly across radio because they clearly conform to an identifiable style or genre.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Rossman, Gabriel Rossman
• Edition: Princeton University Press
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre Relié
• Sortie: 01.08.2012
• EAN: 9780691148731
• ISBN: 978-0-691-14873-1
• Pages: 200
• Catégories: Sciences humaines, art, musique > Musique > Général, dictionnaires; Sciences sociales, droit, économie > Médias, communication > Sciences des médias; Radio, Media Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, PERFORMING ARTS / Radio / General, MUSIC / Business Aspects, Music Industry, Radio / Podcasts