Pop song piracy
by Barry Dean Kernfeld · first published 2011
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…tree books. For at least a decade $20 CDs were the norm despite much lower music prices in the cassette era and much lower prices now. Check out Knopper's 'Appetite for Self-Destruction' or Kernfeld's 'Pop Song Piracy' if you're interested in the music industry specifically. To cut it short: in a government-granted monopolized market, it seems a bit fishy when the entire market lurches in the (same) higher priced…
on “Who inherits your iTunes library when you die?” ↗…selecting hits and in blocking access to alternative productions (or of alternative acts' and songwriters' access to the hit-making machine). Barry Kerner has covered one response to this in his book Pop Song Piracy: Disobedient Music Distribution Since 1929, covering among other elements, fakebooks, songsheets, cassettes, and MP3s: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/popular-music/articl... The "New Books…
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