World Music and the global music industry
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1558/pomh.v3i3.213Keywords:
African music, genre-markets, globalization, music industry, world musicAbstract
This article provides a sketch of the main features of the global macro-economy of music followed by comments on World Music and its relation to the macro-economy. The article contains key financial data of the worldwide music industry in 2006 and an estimate of the royalty flows between global regions. The corporate structures of the major international music companies are analysed. The main characteristics of World Music as a ‘genre-market’ and as a sub-set of the global music industry are discussed.
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Frith, Simon. 1996. Performing Rites: On the Value of Popular Music. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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Laing, Dave. 2002. ‘Copyright as a Component of the Music Business’. In The Business of Music, ed. Michael Talbot. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press.
May, Christopher. 2007. The World Intellectual Property Organisation: Resurgence and the Development Agenda. London and New York: Routledge.
Moss, Stephen. 2007. ‘I’m bringing a message’. Guardian G2 (March 21): 28.
Negus, Keith. 1999. Music Genres and Corporate Cultures. London and New York: Routledge.
Nercessian, Andy. 2002. Postmodernism and Globalisation in Ethnomusicology: An Epistemological Problem. Lanham, MD and London: Scarecrow Press.
Peterson, Richard A., and David G. Berger. 1975. ‘Cycles in Symbol Production: The Case of Popular Music’. American Sociological Review 40: 156–73.
Pietilä, Tuulikki. 2009. ‘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.
Rabine, Leslie W. 2002. The Global Circulation of African Fashion. Oxford and New York: Berg.
Taylor, Timothy. 1997. Global Pop: World Music, World Markets. New York and London: Routledge.
Turino, Thomas. 2000. Nationalists, Cosmopolitans and Popular Music in Zimbabwe. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Sweeney, Philip. 1991. Directory of World Music. London: Virgin Books.
UNESCO. 2005. International Flows of Selected Cultural Goods and Services 1994–2003. Montreal: UNESCO Institute for Statistics.
Williamson, J., and M. Cloonan. 2007. ‘Rethinking the Music Industry’. Popular Music 26/2: 305–22.
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2009-09-06
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How to Cite
Laing, D. (2009). World Music and the global music industry. Popular Music History, 3(3), 213-231. https://doi.org/10.1558/pomh.v3i3.213
