Chapter 1 1 The "Celestial Jukebox" Chapter 2 2 The Music Industry in Transition Chapter 3 3 The Jukebox Contested Chapter 4 4 The Jukebox Implemented Chapter 5 5 Digital Capitalism, Culture, and the Public Interest
Patrick Burkart is assistant professor of communication at Texas A&M University. Tom McCourt is assistant professor of communication and media studies at Fordham University and the author of Conflicting Communication Interests in America: The Case of National Public Radio.
Burkart and McCourt weave together materials from disparate sources
to provide a comprehensive and clarifying account of the
technological, business, and legal developments in a complex and
confusing industry. They also alert us to the historical context
within which the current drama is playing out. The end result is a
book that is both cutting edge and historically grounded—a rare and
welcome feat.
*Harmeet Sawhney, Indiana University; editor, The Information
Society*
This concise, precise little book is a spirited polemic against
digital capitalism and a mine of information about changes in the
music business. Everyone interested in the contemporary cultural
industries should read it.
*David Hesmondhalgh, The Open University, the United Kingdom*
Burkart and McCourt provide the first clear and comprehensive
account of the Internet's impact on the music industry. From law to
mp3s, peer-to-peer networks to DRM, their telling of the modern
music industry's storied struggle with technology is always
engaging, illuminating, and insightful. For students and scholars
alike this book will prove invaluable to an understanding of the
complicated legal, technological, commercial, and social issues
surrounding today's digital music mayhem.
*Steve Jones, University of Illinois, Chicago; author, Virtual
Culture, Rock Formation: Technology, Music, and Mass
Communication*
This is a fascinating and important study for those concerned about
trends in the media industries. The book is theoretically solid and
provides excellent detail to the concerns of copyright and
technological development that will shape the music industry for
decades to come.
*Lynn Schofield Clark, University of Colorado*
Digital Music Wars should be required reading for anyone interested
in the rapidly changing legal and technological landscape that was
carved out after World War MP3. Although it deftly explains these
shifts to both novices and experts, the book's real strength is in
illuminating what is at stake in these battles: the public
interest.
*Kembrew McLeod, author, Freedom of Expression and Owning
Culture*
Digital Music Wars provides an essential roadmap to the massive
upheaval in the global music business. With a critical eye and the
clearest prose, it examines the changing technologies, corporate
struggles, government responses, and citizen challenges that are
creating the emerging 'celestial jukebox.' Skillfully combining
political, economic, and cultural approaches, the authors have
written a book that is both comprehensive and a joy to read.
*Vincent Mosco, Canada Research Chair in Communication and Society,
Queen's University*
. . . provides a good survey of the global music business and the
technology-driven upheavals that have so changed it in recent
years.
*Communication Booknotes Quarterly*
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