Music Industry Monopolies
I try my best to avoid to go major venues, help?
I try my best to avoid going to major venues, aka ticketmaster/live nations/clear channel( if that still around)venues. How much of a differences am I making? How can bands continue to play these type of venues with the monopoly ticketmaster/live nations have on the music industry? How can bands on indie labels still play these major venues? Don’t they care about their fans?
go to fremont st. there are free bands and lots of other stuff to see.
HARDtalk: The Music Industry – Digital Music & Piracy
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The Wal-Mart Effect: How the World’s Most Powerful Company Really Works–and How It’s Transforming the American Economy $8.48 An award-winning journalist breaks through the wall of secrecy to reveal the many astonishing ways Wal-Mart’s power affects our lives and reaches all around the world. The Wal-Mart Effect: The overwhelming impact of the world’s largest company–due to its relentless pursuit of low prices–on retailers and manufacturers, wages and jobs, the culture of shopping, the shape of our communities, and th… |
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Monopoly Television: Mtv’s Quest To Control The Music (Critical Studies in Communication & in the Cultural Industries) $29.74 In August 1981, Music Television—now popularly known as MTV—was launched. Within a matter of years it revitalized a struggling record industry; made the careers of leading pop stars like Madonna, Boy George, Cyndi Lauper, and Duran Duran; infiltrated traditional network television and the movie industry; revolutionized the advertising industry; and stimulated purchases in several markets… |
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Megamedia: How Giant Corporations Dominate Mass Media, Distort Competition, and Endanger Democracy $9.71 Megamedia offers a unique look at the ominous impacts of this control of the mass media, and suggests ways to hold big corporate media responsible for not only increasing diversity but also presenting society with fair and unbiased information…. |