1st Edition

Media Policy and Music Activity

By Krister Malm, Roger Wallis Copyright 1992
    286 Pages
    by Routledge

    288 Pages
    by Routledge

    How do people make music - and how does this activity relate to the policies of governments and the music industry? What is the relationship between live music and music we hear on the radio, or in music videos? How has the digital revolution affected music-making in industrialised and in developing nations? In Media Policy and Music Activity, Krister Malm and Roger Wallis look in depth at the relationships between policies governing the output of the music media and music activity in society. A practical base in case study material is combined with a broad theoretical framework for understanding the music media.

    Preface 1 The music industry and music media—an introduction 2 Concepts, postulates, constraints and methods 3 Case study: Jamaica 4 Case study: Trinidad 5 Case study: Kenya 6 Case study: Tanzania 7 Case study: Cymru—Wales 8 Case study: Sweden 9 Conclusions

    Biography

    Krister Malm is Director of Musikmuseet in Stockholm, and Associate Professor of Musicology at Gothenburg University. Roger Wallis is BBC Correspondent in Sweden. Their pioneering research into the workings of the music industry was first published in the book Big Sounds from Small Peoples (Constable, 1984). Roger Wallis is the co-author, with Stanley Baran, of The Known World of Broadcast News (Routledge, 1990), an analysis of the broadcast news industry.