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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Music Business"”.
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Open and freemium music business models in Africa - copyright and competition consequences
… laws to regulate the open and freemium music business model that involves the use of copyright-protected music content to generate revenue from advertising. To enhance their competitiveness and escape copyright infringement liability, the firms that deploy the business model impose …
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Accounting for taste: The early American music business and secularization in music aesthetics, 1720--1825
<p>This study redefines popular music in early America as sacred music sung and performed in most churches and, starting in the 1790s, theater music imported from England. Rather than more static secular ballads and traditional dance pieces customarily understood as popular music, sacred and …
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Disintermediation and re-intermediation in the music business: the effect of multimedia technologies and E-commerce
… inextricably more closer related to society and business. Theoretical insight into these new areas is scarce and that is the gap that this thesis aims to cover. The study uses the music industry as a test-bed for the propositions developed. The literature review summarises and criticises the …
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The business of live music in South Africa and the jazz musician
… of this dissertation is to investigate how the business of music operates in the live music industry of South Africa in relation to the jazz musician;; also what systems are in place that assist, protect the rights of, and provide for, the jazz musician (bearing in mind that most jazz musicians …
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Is there a future? : an analysis of the music industry through its history and its strategy for survival in the age of peer to peer & file sharing technologies
The recorded music business is presently at a crossroads: new technologies have forever changed the way business is conducted, revenues are getting smaller every year, the conversion of revenue origin from sales of physical products to digital ones is not happening at a rate anywhere near what …
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Structural change in the music industry : the evolving role of the musician
… large-scale and protracted revision of the business model, and this adjustment has been exacerbated by two serious economic downturns. This dissertation references the author’s career to provide context and corroboration for the arguments herein. It synthesizes salient constants from more …
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Regulating for the equitable remuneration of music artists in Kenya
Music artists are usually incentivized to create when they receive royalties or revenue from the commercialization of their music. Although copyright and related rights initially vest with music artists to enable them to extract the full value of their exclusive rights, many lack the resources to …
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Iphungwa Ngezithebe: Exploring Umaskandi in The Fourth Industrial Revolution Threats and Opportunities
… of a deep-seated Indigenous Isizulu culture of music-making, has become a commodity over several decades and has been monetised. Social advancement has meant that cultural industries, such as umaskandi, could not resist technological advances that have determined its production, dissemination, …
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The music industry and Canadian national identity
The links between national identity and the music industry in Canada are too diverse to be understood with any simplistic model of the nation. In early twentieth century Italy Ahtonio Gramsci examined the consumption of serialized stories written by foreigners. He developed a view of popular …
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Footprints of Resilience: Tracking the Career Development Steps of African American Male Musicians
<p>For African American (AA) male musicians, the road toward career advancement in the entertainment industry is particularly arduous. Despite many difficulties on the journey to career success, the history of gospel, R&B, jazz, and funk music is evidence that many AA male musicians find their way …
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Bury me deep in isolation: A cultural examination of a peripheral music industry and scene
… have had a strong presence within the Australian music scene. Primarily, each year between 1998 and 2009, songs by indie pop/rock acts from Perth have charted within national broadcaster triple j’s Hottest 100 countdown. Many of the albums from which these songs have been taken have sold in excess …
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Still Dreaming of You: Selena's Discourse with and Continuing Impact on American Musical Culture
… of Selena and Selena y Los Dinos: Selena’s music, Selena’s performance aesthetic, and Selena’s fandom today. Chapter 1 focuses on Selena y Los Dinos’ American musical influences, particularly studying the songs “Enamorada de ti,” “Missing my Baby,” and “Fotos y Recuerdos” and the presence of …
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THE EFFECTS OF MUSIC AMPLITUDE AND CONSUMERS' SEX ON
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to examine music's influence on subjective perception of wait time. Subjective perception of wait time is defined as the perceived duration of a time interval. A convenience sample of forty-one undergraduate and graduate college students (N=41) participated in …