Tag Archives: music industry

You are the music while the music lasts: a look at record shops online and offline

Marnick van der Zee | 24 October 2011, 10:16 pm | 1 comment | tags: , , , , , , ,

The market for music has been collapsing since the up rise of high speed Internet access. Music is an elastic product that suffers under the effect of price and competition. The opportunities for users have changed and lean towards downloading. It’s easier, faster and less expensive then buying it at a store in the centre of most cities. It isn’t…

Interview: Moos Lamerus on changes and quality in professional music

Joep Hegger | 18 October 2011, 1:45 pm | tags: , , , , ,

New media caused a lot of change in the music industry over the last decade. Comments on such changes tend to focus on general consequences, and overlook the changes as perceived by musicians and other people working in the industry. This text aims to open a door to an insider review through an interview with Amsterdam based musician and music professional Moos Lamerus.

Africa Unsigned: the Professionalizing of User Input

Erik van Bemmelen | 30 September 2010, 2:49 pm | tags: , , , , , , , , ,

In the past years the Internet has been flooded with user generated content. The theory on new media has subsequently been flooded with research into this phenomenon, that is commonly centered around the web 2.0 concept. This theorizing of the beautiful possibilities and promises of freedom on the Internet has become almost tiresome. What I want to do here, is…

The Wilderness Downtown: When New Media and Music Reinforce Each Other

Rosanne Sliuzas | 07 September 2010, 10:29 pm | 3 comments | tags: , , , ,

Musicians are struggling, as they have always been. It seems to have to be part of the deal in one way or another. In the past decade or so however, things have gotten increasingly difficult for artists as the music industry has found itself confronted with fast declining record sales and an even faster growing competitor in the form

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How can Social Network Sites help artists to make money?

Jelle Kamsma | 01 October 2009, 1:00 pm | 3 comments | tags: , , ,

Big record companies like to blame the internet for the decreasing amount of albums that are being sold in the conventional shops. It seems to me that one of the main characteristics of big conglomerates like the record industry is their desire to resist change. They like to keep the status quo even if this means missing some great opportunities…

What are the ‘Music Industries’?

Chris Castiglione | 06 August 2009, 3:05 am | 4 comments | tags: , , , ,

The term ‘music industry’ is a misnomer. In reality the ‘music industry’ is not one industry, it is several independent industries. This is an important distinction because if we say that there is a “crisis in the music industry” it suggests an equal amount of misfortune for everyone (musicians, the recording industry, the live-music industry, Internet radio, etc.) and in…