CMS 3390 Curse of the Hidden Music Business
Starting some 15 years ago, just down the road at Stanford, the music business got hijacked by the Internet. Since then the business has been simultaneously dying, fragmenting and redefining. The music business would like to represent itself in the deliriously self-celebrating image of the Grammys. But in the long wake of the Grand Theft Music at Stanford by means of mp3, this image has become a lie and misrepresentation. Now, three very different versions of the recorded music business have come to simultaneously exist. Each loathes and despises the others. Although each version is necessarily aware of the existence of the others, essentially each version acts as if the consequences they inflict upon the others are of no consequence. Almost as if the others really don't exist. But each of these triplets remains absolutely dependent upon the others. In this ménage-a-trois: One makes all the money. One makes none of the money, but attracts all the investment. One makes some of the money, but attracts none of the investment. This is the Curse of the Hidden Music Business.
Cross Listed Courses
MUS 3390