Introduction to the Special Issue

World Music and small players in the global music industry

Authors

  • Tuulikki Pietilä University of Helsinki Author

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1558/pomh.v3i3.207

Keywords:

world music, global music industry

Author Biography

  • Tuulikki Pietilä, University of Helsinki

    Tuulikki Pietilä is an academy research fellow in the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies. She has published a monograph on market women and gender relations in Kilimanjaro, Tanzania, and a number of articles on trade and gender issues in post-colonial Africa as well as on the world music industry. Currently she is studying South African music and music industry.

References

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fRoots Magazine. 1987. ‘History of World Music’. http://www.frootsmag.com/content/features/world_music_history/minutes

Giddens, A. 1990. The Consequences of Modernity. Stanford: Stanford University Press.

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Mitchell, T. 1993. ‘World Music and the Popular Music Industry: An Australian View’. Ethnomusicology 37/3: 309–37.

Pietilä, T. 2008. ‘Singing in the Dark? World Music and Issues of Power and Agency’. In Globalization and Restructuring of African Commodity Flows, eds Niels Fold and Marianne Nylandsted Larsen, 241–66. Uppsala: Nordic Africa Institute.

—2009a. ‘Whose Works and What Kinds of Rewards: The Persisting Question of Ownership and Control in the South African and Global Music Industry’. Information, Communication & Society 12/2: 229–50.

—ed. 2009b. World Music: Roots and Routes. Helsinki: Collegium for Advanced Studies, e-book series, volume 6: http://www.helsinki.fi/collegium/e-series/volumes/vol ume_6/index.htm

Taylor, T. 1997. Global Pop: World Music, World Markets. New York and London: Routledge.

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Published

2009-09-06

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Section

Editorial

How to Cite

Pietilä, T. (2009). Introduction to the Special Issue: World Music and small players in the global music industry. Popular Music History, 3(3), 207-212. https://doi.org/10.1558/pomh.v3i3.207