Patrons, Curators, Inventors and Thieves [electronic resource] : The Storytelling Contest of the Cultural Industries in the Digital Age /
Wheeldon, Jonathan.author.
Jonathan Wheeldon offers a rare and unusually reflective insider account of the transformational challenges of the music industry, and the cultural industries in general, over the past 15 years. He also makes a potentially valuable contribution to loosening the industrial-political deadlock in the debate over copyright reform.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Introduction: A Changing Master-Narrative of Cultural Production; Part I: My Version of Events; 1 A Personal Perspective; 2 Innovation or Bust: A Short History of Recorded Music; Part II: Stakeholder Voices; 3 Value Shift; 4 Custodial Tensions; 5 Hindsight and Strategic Sense-Making; Part III: A Storytelling Contest; 6 The Analysis of Discourse; 7 Strategy as Storytelling; 8 Identification of Key Constructs; 9 A Narrative World; 10 The Inventor's Tale; 11 Power and Ideology; Part IV: The Pirate's Tale: The Reform of Copyright and the Future
12 Pirates, Property and Privatization13 Enclosing the Commons of the Mind; 14 The 300-Year War of Copyright; 15 My Version of Events: The Future; Notes; References; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Jonathan Wheeldon offers a rare and unusually reflective insider account of the transformational challenges of the music industry, and the cultural industries in general, over the past 15 years. He also makes a potentially valuable contribution to loosening the industrial-political deadlock in the debate over copyright reform.
Cultural policy.
Discourse analysis.
Music.
Business.
Management science.
Cultural studies.
Communication.
Cultural Policy and Politics.
Discourse Analysis.
Music.
Business and Management, general.
Cultural Studies.
Media Studies.