Popular Music in a Digital Music Economy: Problems and Practices for an Emerging Service Industry - Routledge Research in Music 1st edition

In the late 1990s, the MP3 became the de facto standard for digital audio files and the networked computer began to claim a significant place in the lives of more and more listeners. The dovetailing of these two circumstances is the basis of a new mode of musical production and distribution where new practices emerge. This book is not a definiti