Corporate Life in the Digital Music Industry: Remaking the Major Record Label from the Inside Out

Drawing on a deep and long-term first-hand engagement with major labels in the early years of the 21st century, this book sheds new light 'behind the scenes', at a time of drastic and far-reaching transformation. Refreshingly, it centres not on artists and the most powerful decision-makers but on everyday experiences of work and back-office corporate employees.

Doing so reveals the internal activities and conflicts that, while hidden from public view, enable processes of change: from paperwork, data systems, managerial pressures and redundancies to graduate training schemes, departmental politics and shared playlists, providing a new route into understanding the broader cultures and infrastructures of the global recording industry. This oft-forgotten office work tells a different story of contemporary digital music, one more sensitive to the complex intersections that texture the conduct of work and organizational life.

Author: Toby Bennett
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: 09/19/2024
Series: Alternate Takes: Critical Responses to Popular Music
Pages: 264
Weight: 0.88lbs
Size: 9.04h x 6.05w x 0.59d
ISBN: 9781501387227