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THE RECORD BUSINESS'S SECRETS ARE UNCOVERED!
What happened to the record business? It used to be wildly successful selling outstanding music that showcased performers’ creativity and individuality. Now it’s in rapid decline, and the best music lies buried under the swill.
This unprecedented book answers this question with a detailed examination of how the record business fouled its own livelihood--through shortsightedness, stubbornness, power plays, sloth, and outright greed. The Dirty Little Secrets of the Record Business takes you on a hard-headed tour through the corridors of the major labels and rides the waves of corporate radio to explain just why so much of the music you hear sucks.
Here is a close look at just how the machinery behind the popular song broke down, including:
- The corporatization of the record business
- Why stockholders play an important role in what you hear
- How radio went from an art to a science, and what was lost in the change
- How the record companies alienated their core audience
- Why file sharing may not be the bogeyman the record industry would have you think it is
- Technology’s effect on what you hear and how you hear it
- And dozens of other reasons that all add up to the record industry’s current financial and artistic woes.
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Dirty Little Secrets of the Record Business:
Why So Much Music You Hear Sucks |
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| by Hank Bordowitz |
| Format: Hardback |
| Pub. Date: 1/1/2007 |
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| Publisher: Chicago Review |
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“An accurate and well-researched exposé of the surreptitious, undisclosed, and covert activities of the music industry. Hank Bordowitz spares no one while exposing every aspect of the business.”
--Tony Bongiovi, producer of Talking Heads, Aerosmith, Ramones, and others
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