Abstract: The object of the previous chapter was to establish the roots of the three terms used at the outset of Chapter 1: music industry as the activity of industrialising music, the music industries and the Music Industry. The concentration on the rise and consolidation of Music Hall over an 80-year period was intended to demonstrate that a new industry of live performance became established from the 1840s onwards. In creating popular music by generalising and systematising amateur music making practices associated with the emergence of an urban populace, the live performance industry also helped to transform the existing music publishing business by encouraging writers and publishers to produce for the vast new market created by entrepreneurial innovation. It would take a far more detailed historical study to explore the full impact of Music Hall on music publishing and, similarly, the discussion of the rise of an industry in live performance was necessarily schematic. The point remains that new industries in music were called into being in the 19th century. These became substantially inter-dependent, standardised in their practices. They then took on the trappings and, more importantly, institutional power through their growing centrality to commercial entertainment. The purpose of this chapter is to explore the ongoing effects of this embedded, industrial framework on musicians, organised as popular music acts, seeking market success.
Publication Year: 2012
Publication Date: 2012-01-01
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
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