Pop idols and pirates
Subtitle: mechanisms of consumption and the global circulation of popular music
By: Charles Fairchild.
Series: Ashgate popular and folk music series
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Aldershot, Hampshire, England Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 182
ISBN-13: 9780754663836
Subjects: Music trade -- Social aspects; Popular music -- Social aspects; Piracy (Copyright)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [159]-177), discography (p. 176-177), filmography (p. 177), and index.
Table of contents: title: All of the in-between. The acts and the spaces of consumption ; The medium and materials of popular music; title: Bridging the distance between production and consumption. Property and power: CDs, MP3s, and SoundScan ; Mediating and manufacturing the investment in desire; title: The spectacle as consumption environment. Constructing the idol empire ; Building the authentic celebrity: the structure of a spectacle ; Becoming who you are: the content of a spectacle.