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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"recording industry"”.
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The record producer as nexus: creative inspiration, technology and the recording industry
… the record button. Close examination of the recording process will show how far this is from a complete picture. Artists are special—they come with an inspiration, and a talent, but also with a variety of complications, and in many ways a recording studio can seem the least likely place for …
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The economics of copyright, parallel imports and piracy in the music recording industry
… Act 1968 to allow parallel imports of sound recordings. This thesis begins with an investigation of the economics of the music recording industry, encompassing the nature of demand and supply of sound recordings, profit maximising price strategies for a multi-product firm, and an …
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Freedom, Music and the RIAA: How the Recording Industry Association of America Shapes Culture by De-politicizing Music
Since the development of widespread sound recording and distribution, the music industry has become increasingly consolidated among fewer companies. Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno described how the commodifying forces of the music industry lead to a predictable formulaic music that lacks any …
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Powwow Music and the Aboriginal Recording Industry on the Northern Plains: Media, Technology, and Native American Music in the Late Twentieth Century
*This dissertation is a compound document (contains both a paper copy and a CD as part of the dissertation). The CD requires the following system requirements: Windows MediaPlayer or RealPlayer.
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Same song, new dance: analyzing market structure and competition in the digital music aggregation industry
… an innovative new market segment in the music recording industry: digital music aggregation. Digital music aggregators are music distributors that directly connect artists, any creator of musical content, to digital music vendors, online music stores such as iTunes or digital music streaming …
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The role of heat assisted magnetic recording in future hard disk drive applications
… well be a disruptive technology in the magnetic recording industry. Companies that intend to profit from this technology need to invest on its development and must try to be first-to-volume production to benefit from economies of scale and to build the necessary expertise that could give them …
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A Historical Geography of the Music Industry
… at the geographic periphery of the popular music industry. Before the 1970s, the physical and cultural isolation of the musical culture groups in cities like Memphis and Liverpool helped them create a sound that was significantly different than that considered most marketable among industry …
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The Voice of the Negro: African American Radio, WVON, and the Struggle for Civil Rights in Chicago
… for the national rhythm and blues and soul music industry, but also as a driving media force that provoked collective thought and action among Chicago's African American community during the 1960s and early 1970s.</p><p>This dissertation begins with an exploration of the reasons for the station's …
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Growth, litigation and innovation of peer-to-peer file-sharing networks
… file-sharing and responses to it from the music industry, regulators, and the public. The investigation begins with the factors responsible for the growth of a peer-to-peer network, the factors that limit the growth of such a network, and how the dynamics of a file-sharing network change due to …
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Structural change in the music industry : the evolving role of the musician
The recording industry is little more than one hundred years old. In its short history there have been many changes that have redefined roles, enabled fortunes to be built and caused some to be dissipated. Recording and delivery formats have gone through fundamental conceptual developments and each …
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British Army Music in the Interwar Years: Culture, Performance, and Influence
… years were a primary stakeholder in the music industry and to explore their role in projecting soft power for the British military. There were approximately 7,000 full-time bandsmen serving in the British army, which was about a third of the total number of musicians in the music profession in …
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Ears Taut to Hear: Sound Recording and Twentieth-Century American Literature
… and LPs. I contend that the development of sound recording technology not only shaped many of the formal innovations that we now associate with modernism, but that it compelled writers to theorize sound. For instance, Gertrude Stein's broken-record repetitions in "Melanctha" (1909) illustrate new …
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The forging of modern Broadway Sound Design Techniques amid the Fires of the Rock Musicals in the Late 1960s and 1970s.
… of technological advancements within the recording industry, Jacob and others forged a modern approach to sound design specifically within the framework of the Broadway musical, which helped restore the fading industry of the Broadway musical in the late 1960s. These new approaches served …
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Three case studies in twentieth-century performance practice
… Thanks to the rapid development of the recording industry, the twentieth century is the first century for which documentation of this process exists in the form of recordings, partial aural records of the performance history of a piece. Recent studies have tried to demonstrate how …
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Advanced peer-based technology business models
… goods ( e.g. written documents, audio recordings, videos) has allowed individuals to exchange these goods with one another on an international scale with essentially no marginal cost. This phenomenon has been accelerated by the rise of peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing systems. which …
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La guitarra clásica en el mercado discográfico español (1926-1939)
… saw an increase in the publication of guitar recordings aided by new electrical recording technology and the expansion of cultural industries. The Spanish record labels Odeon, Parlophon, La Voz de su Amo, Regal and Columbia led the international publication of electric albums recorded by …
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"Get Listenin' Kids!": Independence as Social Practice in American Popular Music
… trajectory that extends to the beginnings of the recording industry. Pierre Bourdieu's concept of the social field frames my investigation of the ways in which independence becomes socially and musically manifested in communities of musicians, mediators and audiences. I explore how these …
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Time dependence in fine-particle systems
… that have widespread application in the magnetic recording industry. The particle ensemble considered exhibits both orientational texture and a distribution of particle volumes. The coercivity, (i.e. the magnitude of the field that will just reduce the magnetisation of a saturated system to zero), …
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Micromagnetic modelling of thin film media
The magnetic recording industry is continuously trying to increase the density of recording media. There is a continuous need, therefore, to fully understand the magnetic processes that occur in such media. To enable this understanding, theoretical studies are conducted in the form of micromagnetic …
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The Victor Brass Quartet: Its Genesis, History, and Literature
… examines the history, literature, personnel, and recording activities of the Victor Brass Quartet from 1901-1912. This study begins in 1856 with the musical activities of William Horatio Clarke, the famous American organist and organ builder, and includes biographies on the early years of …
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