Synopses & Reviews
Producing Pop provides a fascinating behind-the-scenes analysis of one of the world's major entertainment industries. Focusing on the contribution of recording industry personnel, it challenges the simplistic assumption that pop music is merely determined by corporate financial interests, and argues against writers who portray the music business as a cultural assembly line.
Table of Contents
Introduction: Between the artist and audience
Feeding the world: popular music and the global entertainment industry
Music machines: technology and popular music
Priorities and prejudice: Artists and Repertoire and the acquisition of artists
Images, identities and audiences: READ ing and artist development
Studios and videos: the production of sound and vision
Promotional war games: pop radio in Britain and North America
Media matchmakers: press, publicity and performance - stores and dance floors
Between success and failure: collaboration and conflict in the recording industry
Conclusion: commerce, chaos and cultural change
Appendices
Bibliography
Index.