The Music Industry: Music in the Cloud (Paperback)

The music industry is going through a period of immense change brought about in part by the digital revolution. What is the role of music in the age of computers and the internet? How has the music industry been transformed by the economic and technological upheavals of recent years, and how is it likely to change in the future?

This is the first major study of the music industry in the new millennium. Wikström provides an international overview of the music industry and its future prospects in the world of global entertainment. They illuminate the workings of the music industry, and capture the dynamics at work in the production of musical culture between the transnational media conglomerates, the independent music companies and the public.

The Music Industry will become a standard work on the music industry at the beginning of the 21st century. It will be of great interest to students and scholars of media and communication studies, cultural studies, popular music, sociology and economics. It will also be of great value to professionals in the music industry, policy makers, and to anyone interested in the future of music.

音樂產業正經歷著由數位革命帶來的巨大變革。在電腦和互聯網時代，音樂的角色是什麼？近年來的經濟和技術動盪如何改變了音樂產業，未來又將如何變化？

這是對新千年音樂產業的首次重大研究。Wikström提供了音樂產業的國際概述，以及在全球娛樂界的未來前景。他們闡明了音樂產業的運作方式，並捕捉到跨國媒體企業、獨立音樂公司和公眾之間在音樂文化生產中的動態。

《音樂產業》將成為21世紀初音樂產業的標準作品。對於媒體和傳播學、文化研究、流行音樂、社會學和經濟學的學生和學者，它將具有極大的興趣。對於音樂產業的專業人士、政策制定者以及對音樂未來感興趣的任何人來說，它也具有極大的價值。