Understanding the Music Industries
2012 completed Co-author with Chris Anderton, Martin James, SAGE
A textbook on how the music industries actually work, economically, socially and technologically. SAGE, 2012, with Chris Anderton and Martin James.
Understanding the Music Industries, written with Chris Anderton and Martin James and published by SAGE in 2012, is a textbook built on a plural: there is no single music industry, but a set of interlocking industries, recording, live performance, publishing, retail, media, each with its own economics, its own institutions and its own response to digitalisation.
Across 248 pages the book maps those landscapes for students of music business and media: how value moves through the system, who the gatekeepers are and what happens as they weaken, and how technological change reshapes the deal between artists, intermediaries and audiences. It has served for over a decade as a course text in music industry programmes.
