Downloading Versus the Recording Industry Mathieu Charlebois March 26‚ 2011 MUSI 1002B Alyssa Woods -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- We live in a constantly changing world where we are finding ourselves having to adapt to new ways‚ trends‚ and products constantly. Within the past century‚ technology has been the major catalyst for changed and has made its mark in all industries. The music industry was birthed from the advances in technology
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influence on the music industry has been present ever since he performed his first song showing the mix of explicit lyrics and outrageous productions in a single song‚ while paving the path for many artists of our time with his unique style allowing other artist to explore the road he paved. Prince’s biggest contribution to the music industry is how he changed the desires of his audience through‚ much of at the time‚ his very controversial style. People considered prince’s music as “experimental”
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MEDIA@LSE Electronic MSc Dissertation Series Compiled by Dr. Bart Cammaerts and Dr. Nick Anstead Why pay if it’s free? Streaming‚ downloading‚ and digital music consumption in the “iTunes era” Theodore Giletti‚ MSc in Media & Communications Other dissertations of the series are available online here: http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/media@lse/mediaWorkingPapers/ Dissertation submitted to the Department of Media and Communications‚ London School of Economics and Political Science‚ August
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What are the competitive impacts of Napster on online distribution of music? How do they affect traditional companies? Napster introduced a revolutionary change to the way music was distributed conventionally. Music companies worked with the artists to produce music. Thereafter they invested heavily into burning the music CD’s‚ marketing and advertising of the music and managing the distribution of the music to end customers via retailers. Retailers incurred staffing and real estate and costs
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vivid lyrics and mainstream consumer appeal‚ Wu-Tang was one of the artists that revolutionalised soul and transformed it into the modern rap that we hear today. Without their influence a significant part of both African American culture‚ and American music would simply not exist. The Wu-Tang are pioneers in their own right‚ and in this essay I intend to discuss the emergence of hip hop into modern mainstream culture using the Wu-Tang as a case study. Hip hop is a cultural way of life divided into four
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Christianity and the Modern Music Industry Christon Linstad Regent University October 7th‚ 2011 Abstract Christianity and contemporary music has had a long love/hate relationship. Music is often charged with being a corrupter of today’s youth and a challenger of Christian moral values. The fear of corruption is still evident today by the campaign Tipper Gore led to put warning labels on recordings that contain offensive material. On November 1‚ 1985‚ before the hearing ended‚ the RIAA
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Music downloaded from the internet should be legalized It is quite simple to obtain music today‚ one can purchase songs and download music videos on the World Wide Web with just a few mouse clicks. This is an achievement brought about by the digital technologies and the Internet which has enabled its users to stream or download musical works. Online music stores such as the Amazon and Grooveshark offer media libraries containing a huge variety of songs to the users for a fee while others may do so
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INNOVATION MANAGEMENT IN THE MP3 AUDIO PLAYER INDUSTRY 8 August 2006 Erik Westerman Question 1 I have chosen the personal stereo industry (home entertainment sector) as a sector of interest. Portable audio products‚ starting with the cassette tape Walkman‚ and finishing with the MP3 player involve major innovations as the main reason why there has been such radical change over the last ten years. The main leaders of today hardly resemble the top competitors 10 years ago. The leader
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Digital Music Piracy Can’t Stop‚ Won’t Stop Digital music piracy‚ or the unlawful downloading of copyrighted music‚ has been a controversial topic for more than a decade now. The issue was first brought to attention in 1998 when Shawn Fanning created Napster. Though the MP3 file was originally developed in 1987‚ Napster represented the first mainstream and user-friendly program to transfer and download these files. Napster‚ a peer-to-peer (P2P) program‚ allowed online users to connect with
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Now That’s What I Call Music‚ Piracy! I bought my first CD when I was about 10 years old. My mom had drove me to Target and allowed me to purchase one CD of my choosing; I chose Now 11. I spent what felt like hours scouring the aisles of the store looking for the 11th edition of Now That’s What I Call Music and finally found it on the shelf. I remember being filled with excitement and anticipation as we drove home; I was so anxious to put it into my CD player. I remember the only reason I wanted
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