As the music industry enters the 21st Century, there are a variety of crises and issues plaguing different aspects of the medium. While some, such as the Napster on-line piracy debate, are prominently discussed due to their serious legal and economic implications, other issues lay hidden and remain largely ignored by both the public and the industry. Often such covert issues are in fact the most important, reflecting the true nature and struggles of the medium of sound recordings.
A prime example of the latter is the industry’s current ethos of music as product and as mass-marketable commodity. Although seemingly unavoidable in nature, a tie between sound recordings and profit-driven corporations has resulted in the horrible mismanageme
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