MUS 503 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Berry Gordy, Music Week, Social Inequality
5 Mar 2018
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The idea of the decline of the music business - its hard to make music and pro t o of it. 1970 -1999 was a huge time for money making in music -> in 2000 napster killed it. Nowadays artist make their money from touring (they jack up theses prices to make up from -- lack of record sales revenue) or licensing their music for ads. Karl wolf "africa: sampled song was hit, his version sucks, he is trying to "emulate" all the visual codes that make him look hip hop -> manufactured song. Popular music: artist discovery/development (going into church to nd talent, creation/composition (people who write songs, recording/production (making the record in the studio, manufacturing/distribution (physical copies of cd) -> this is changing to streaming, promotion (advertising it, consumption. Mass audience arrives with the invention of mass media. Pop music cannot be understood outside of industrialized context of production and consumption.
