Digital Revolution Tamed: The Case of the Recording Industry
This book explores why widespread predictions of the radical transformation in the recording industry did not materialise. Although the growing revenue generated from streaming signals the recovery of the digital music business, it is important to ask to what extent is the current development a response to digital innovation. Hyojung Sun finds the answer in the detailed innovation process that has taken place since Napster. She reassesses the way digital music technologies were encultured in complex music valorisation processes and demonstrates how the industry has become reintermediated rather than disintermediated.

This book offers a new understanding of digital disruption in the recording industry. It captures the complexity of the innovation processes that brought about technological development, which arose as a result of interaction across the circuit of the recording business – production, distribution, valorisation, and consumption. By offering a more sophisticated account than the prevailing dichotomy, the book exposes deterministic myths surrounding the radical transformation of the industry.
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Digital Revolution Tamed: The Case of the Recording Industry
This book explores why widespread predictions of the radical transformation in the recording industry did not materialise. Although the growing revenue generated from streaming signals the recovery of the digital music business, it is important to ask to what extent is the current development a response to digital innovation. Hyojung Sun finds the answer in the detailed innovation process that has taken place since Napster. She reassesses the way digital music technologies were encultured in complex music valorisation processes and demonstrates how the industry has become reintermediated rather than disintermediated.

This book offers a new understanding of digital disruption in the recording industry. It captures the complexity of the innovation processes that brought about technological development, which arose as a result of interaction across the circuit of the recording business – production, distribution, valorisation, and consumption. By offering a more sophisticated account than the prevailing dichotomy, the book exposes deterministic myths surrounding the radical transformation of the industry.
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Digital Revolution Tamed: The Case of the Recording Industry

Digital Revolution Tamed: The Case of the Recording Industry

by Hyojung Sun
Digital Revolution Tamed: The Case of the Recording Industry

Digital Revolution Tamed: The Case of the Recording Industry

by Hyojung Sun

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Overview

This book explores why widespread predictions of the radical transformation in the recording industry did not materialise. Although the growing revenue generated from streaming signals the recovery of the digital music business, it is important to ask to what extent is the current development a response to digital innovation. Hyojung Sun finds the answer in the detailed innovation process that has taken place since Napster. She reassesses the way digital music technologies were encultured in complex music valorisation processes and demonstrates how the industry has become reintermediated rather than disintermediated.

This book offers a new understanding of digital disruption in the recording industry. It captures the complexity of the innovation processes that brought about technological development, which arose as a result of interaction across the circuit of the recording business – production, distribution, valorisation, and consumption. By offering a more sophisticated account than the prevailing dichotomy, the book exposes deterministic myths surrounding the radical transformation of the industry.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9783319930213
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Publication date: 08/04/2018
Edition description: 1st ed. 2019
Pages: 328
Product dimensions: 5.83(w) x 8.27(h) x (d)

About the Author

Hyojung Sun is currently working as a research fellow at Ulster University, UK, leading a UK-government sponsored research project entitled Music 2025, which aims to untangle the complex issues involved around the transparency of data in digital music contents. She obtained her PhD in Science, Technology and Innovation Studies from the University of Edinburgh, UK.

Table of Contents

List of Figures.- List of Tables.- List of Abbreviations.- Chapter 1 Introduction.- Chapter 2 Towards a More Sophisticated Account.- Chapter 3 The History of Technological Development in the Recording Industry.- Chapter 4 Evolution of Digital Music Services.- Chapter 5 Case Study - Spotify.- Chapter 6 Digital Music Distribution Networks.- Chapter 7 Case Study - INgrooves.- Chapter 8 Digital Revolution Tamed in the Recording Industry.- Bibliography.

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“Hyojung Sun’s Digital Revolution Tamed focuses on the most recent developments in the disruption of the recorded music industry, highlighting the mismatch in the impact of the digital era between the initial predictions and what actually happened. The qualitative methodology includes a range of robust supporting official statistics along with case studies to describe the innovations over the past 25 years. A book such as this should be essential reading for those wishing to understand how the entire recorded music industry has been forced to evolve to meet the needs of its customers and stakeholders and, even, it is hoped to become more transparent and fair.” (Dennis Collopy, Senior Research Fellow, University of Hertfordshire, UK)

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