Getting Signed: Record Contracts, Musicians, and Power in Society (Paperback or Softback)

Arditi, David

ISBN 10: 3030445860 / ISBN 13: 9783030445867

Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan 9/28/2020, 2020

Beschreibung

Getting Signed: Record Contracts, Musicians, and Power in Society 0.78.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers BBS-9783030445867

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Getting Signed: Record Contracts, Musicians, and Power in Society (Paperback or Softback)
• Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan 9/28/2020
• Veröffentlichungsdatum: 2020
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 3030445860
• ISBN-13: 9783030445867
• Bindung: Paperback or Softback
• Zustand: New
• Signiert: Signatur des Verfassers
• Buchtyp: Book

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Inhaltsangabe

Record contracts have been the goal of aspiring musicians, but are they still important in the era of SoundCloud? Musicians in the United States still seem to think so, flocking to auditions for The Voice and Idol brands or paying to perform at record label showcases in the hopes of landing a deal. The belief that signing a record contract will almost infallibly lead to some measure of success— the “ideology of getting signed,” as Arditi defines it—is alive and well.

Though streaming, social media, and viral content have turned the recording industry upside down in one sense, the record contract and its mythos still persist. Getting Signed provides a critical analysis of musicians’ contract aspirations as a cultural phenomenon that reproduces modes of power and economic exploitation, no matter how radical the route to contract. Working at the intersection of Marxist sociology, cultural sociology, critical theory, and media studies, Arditi unfolds how the ideology of getting signed penetrated an industry, created a mythos of guaranteed success, and persists in an era when power is being redefined in the light of digital technologies.  

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

David Arditi is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Texas at Arlington, USA, and author of iTake-Over: The Recording Industry in the Digital Era.