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Music Technology Panic Narratives Beyond Piracy: From Taping to Napster to Tiktok

by David Arditi
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9781839995941
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Anthem Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Anthem Press
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  • Pages: 90
  • Original Price: GBP 20.99
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 132 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Business Aspects

The recording industry regularly paints its consumers as pariahs waiting for new technologies to hurt the very musicians they love. In Music Technology Panic Narratives Beyond Piracy: From Taping to Napster to TikTok, Dr. David Arditi examines how the major record labels single-out new technologies as if they will bring an end to recorded music. They use what he calls the "piracy panic narrative"-a narrative in which new technologies threaten the very existence of recorded music. The piracy panic narrative is a rhetorical construct that helps to hide the material reality of the recording industry by positioning major record labels and their recording artists as the victims of widespread crime in the form of piracy. Now, divorced from piracy, the recording industry continues to use the panic narrative to dissuade fans from specific practices and to lobby the government for particular policies. Each time, they use the narrative to change public sentiment, the law, and policy to strengthen their profits. At every moment what gets ignored is labels are the primary exploiter of musicians.

Dr. David Arditi is a professor of sociology at the University of Texas at Arlington where he serves as the director of the Center for Theory.

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