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Routledge Pop Idols and Pirates: Music Consumption & Piracy

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Explore how the modern music industry navigates crises born from globalisation, digitalisation, and commercial pressures in this comprehensive analysis from Routledge. Pop Idols and Pirates examines the central tensions facing music mediators today, from digital piracy and file-sharing to competition with film, television, and other entertainment forms. Part of the Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series, this book investigates the mechanisms driving popular music consumption worldwide and the strategic responses shaping the industry's survival. Essential reading for understanding contemporary battles in music distribution, artist economics, and cultural commerce.

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Pop Idols and Pirates explores how globalisation and digitalisation have created crises for music industry mediators and consumption models.

The book examines digital piracy and internet file-sharing as central battles reshaping how popular music circulates globally.

Routledge's academic analysis addresses the commercialisation of public culture and its impact on music industry survival strategies.

This Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series title investigates competition between music and other entertainment sectors including film and television.

The book provides insight into mechanisms of consumption that define modern popular music distribution and artist economics worldwide.

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Amazon UK
Release Date
21 July 2008
Listed Since
18 December 2007

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