MUSI 1002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Disintermediation
Document Summary
The social production of popular music i: digitization: music production, distribution, and consumption. Extensive use and availability of sampling technology (digital audio workstations - daws) Very high quality and inexpensive recording hardware/software. Reliance on traditional gatekeepers (studios, labels) minimized. Physical spaces, such as local record stores, are increasingly abandoned in favour of cyberspace. Starting in the 90s, computers, with cd drives and decent speakers, have changed listening habits. Streaming radio, internet radio (greater variety, not geographically limited) > removal of so-called middlemen changes the nature of the industry.
