Popular music: Industry​ & Caribbean forms of Industry

Question 1

The Industry​

Answer 1

Popular music is seen as the product of Industry​

The development of a large-scale record industry marked a profound transformation in music experience, a decline in amateur music making, the rise of a new sort of musical consumption and use. Frith in (Lull 56)​

Question 2

The Cycle​

Answer 2

Product​ -> Mediators​ -> Audience​ -> Producers​

Question 3

One Perspective​

Answer 3

In most publications on popular music, the expression ‘music industry’ has traditionally referred to the workings of the music business as defined controlled and experienced by a particular group of people living in northwestern European and North American countries. Guilbault in (Ho and Nurse141-142)​

Writings on the music industry have been based on notions specific to their experience but used as if they were universal to describe the music business worldwide. Guilbault in (Ho and Nurse 142)​

Question 4

The Caribbean has established other forms of industry. ​

Answer 4

Tecno Brega – Brazil​

Dancehall – Jamaica ​

Question 5

Techno Brega – genre from North East Brazil​

Answer 5

Product is Pirated​
->
Product is of low technical investment​
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Product is given away to Pirates​
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Media is pirates​
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Media is sound systems who hold parties​
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Audiences pay for artists to appear at shows
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Question 6

Dancehall – Soundsystem – record sales less important​

Answer 6

Product produced by Soundsytems operators ​->
Product played at Soundsystems​
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Artist perform at Soundsystems and paid
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