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Music by numbers : the use and abuse of statistics in the music industries /

"The music industries are fuelled by statistics: sales targets, breakeven points, success ratios, royalty splits, website hits, ticket revenues, listener figures, piracy abuses and big data. Statistics are of consequence. They influence the music that consumers get to hear, they determine the r...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Osborne, Richard, 1967- (Editor ), Laing, Dave (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bristol, UK ; Chicago, USA : Intellect Books, 2021.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Part I. Winners and losers. At the sign of the swingin' symbol : the manipulation of the UK singles chart ; The gold disc : one million pop fans can't be wrong ; 'I am a one in ten' : success ratios in the recording industry / Richard Osborne
  • Part II. Policy. The global music report : selling a narrative of decline / David Arditi ; Popular music funding in Canada / Shain Shapiro
  • Part III. Live music. Stop making census! Some experiential reflections on conducting a live music census / Adam Behr, Matt Brennan, Martin Cloonan, and Emma Webster ; What's it worth? Calculating the economic value of live music / Dave Laing ; Live music vs. recorded music / Richard Osborne
  • Part IV. Piracy. Selling the numbers on music piracy to burn down the digital library / Lucas Logan ; Educar para crear : the use of statistics and surveys in Spanish music anti-piracy policies / Lola Costa Gálvez ; Measuring the immeasurable / Vanessa Bastian and Dennis Collopy
  • Part V. Digital solutions. One penny from Brazil : music publishing, revived but untransformed / Michael Jones ; Tokens and techno-economic paradigms : on the value of blockchain technology to the music industries / Marcus O'Dair ; The Harkive project : computational analyses and popular music reception / Craig Hamilton.