Leslie M Meier
Biographic Data
| ID | 4980656 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Leslie M Meier |
| GIVEN NAMES | Leslie M |
| FAMILY NAME | Meier |
| SIGNATURE | MEIER L M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Leeds |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8197-5640 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 44 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Popular Music, Streaming, and Promotional Media
The production and consumption of popular music has changed significantly in the digital era, affecting the revenue strategies of the music industries.Focusing on two recent phenomena に streaming music and artist-brand deals に this chapter discusses how these developments encourage an uneven distribution of career opportunities and rewards in the music industries, and elaborates on how the increasingly promotional role of media content means that…
Popular Music, Streaming, and Promotional Media
What the digitalisation of music tells us about capitalism, culture and the power of the information technology sector
This article examines a striking but under-analysed feature of culture under capitalism, using the example of music: that the main ways in which people gain access to cultural experiences are subject to frequent, radical and disorienting shifts. It has two main aims. The first is to provide a macro-historical, multi-causal explanation of changes in technologies of musical consumption, emphasising the mutual imbrication of the economic interests o…
Rising tides? Data capture, platform accumulation, and new monopolies in the digital music economy
This article examines the roles of platform-based distribution and user data in the digital music economy. Drawing on trade press, newspaper coverage, and a consumer privacy complaint, we offer a critical analysis of tech-music partnerships forged between Samsung and Jay-Z (2013), Apple iTunes Store and U2 (2014), Tidal and Kanye West (2016), and Apple Music and Drake (2017). In these cases, information technology (IT) companies supported album r…
Selling Out
Charges of “selling out” and debates about the boundaries of cultural autonomy have played a pivotal role in the development of popular music as a legitimate and “serious” art form. With promotional strategies and commercial business practices now practically inseparable from the core activities previously associated with music making, the relevance of such concepts and the values that underpin them are questioned by industry experts, musicians, …
Promotional Ubiquitous Musics
As the music industry pursues new revenue streams and consumer brands seek out new means to differentiate themselves from one another amid considerable marketing clutter, the music and advertising industries have come together as perhaps unlikely partners. Notes [1] A marketing research group led by James J. Kellaris at the University of Cincinnati's College of Business University of Cincinnati College of Business. "James Kellaris' Faculty Profil…
In Excess? Body Genres, “Bad” Music, and the Judgment of Audiences
Selling Out
Charges of “selling out” and debates about the boundaries of cultural autonomy have played a pivotal role in the development of popular music as a legitimate and “serious” art form. With promotional strategies and commercial business practices now practically inseparable from the core activities previously associated with music making, the relevance of such concepts and the values that underpin them are questioned by industry experts, musicians, …
Rising tides? Data capture, platform accumulation, and new monopolies in the digital music economy
This article examines the roles of platform-based distribution and user data in the digital music economy. Drawing on trade press, newspaper coverage, and a consumer privacy complaint, we offer a critical analysis of tech-music partnerships forged between Samsung and Jay-Z (2013), Apple iTunes Store and U2 (2014), Tidal and Kanye West (2016), and Apple Music and Drake (2017). In these cases, information technology (IT) companies supported album r…
Promotional Ubiquitous Musics
As the music industry pursues new revenue streams and consumer brands seek out new means to differentiate themselves from one another amid considerable marketing clutter, the music and advertising industries have come together as perhaps unlikely partners. Notes [1] A marketing research group led by James J. Kellaris at the University of Cincinnati's College of Business University of Cincinnati College of Business. "James Kellaris' Faculty Profil…
In Excess? Body Genres, “Bad” Music, and the Judgment of Audiences
Promotional Ubiquitous Musics
As the music industry pursues new revenue streams and consumer brands seek out new means to differentiate themselves from one another amid considerable marketing clutter, the music and advertising industries have come together as perhaps unlikely partners. Notes [1] A marketing research group led by James J. Kellaris at the University of Cincinnati's College of Business University of Cincinnati College of Business. "James Kellaris' Faculty Profil…
Selling Out
Charges of “selling out” and debates about the boundaries of cultural autonomy have played a pivotal role in the development of popular music as a legitimate and “serious” art form. With promotional strategies and commercial business practices now practically inseparable from the core activities previously associated with music making, the relevance of such concepts and the values that underpin them are questioned by industry experts, musicians, …
What the digitalisation of music tells us about capitalism, culture and the power of the information technology sector
This article examines a striking but under-analysed feature of culture under capitalism, using the example of music: that the main ways in which people gain access to cultural experiences are subject to frequent, radical and disorienting shifts. It has two main aims. The first is to provide a macro-historical, multi-causal explanation of changes in technologies of musical consumption, emphasising the mutual imbrication of the economic interests o…
Rising tides? Data capture, platform accumulation, and new monopolies in the digital music economy
This article examines the roles of platform-based distribution and user data in the digital music economy. Drawing on trade press, newspaper coverage, and a consumer privacy complaint, we offer a critical analysis of tech-music partnerships forged between Samsung and Jay-Z (2013), Apple iTunes Store and U2 (2014), Tidal and Kanye West (2016), and Apple Music and Drake (2017). In these cases, information technology (IT) companies supported album r…
Popular Music, Streaming, and Promotional Media
The production and consumption of popular music has changed significantly in the digital era, affecting the revenue strategies of the music industries.Focusing on two recent phenomena に streaming music and artist-brand deals に this chapter discusses how these developments encourage an uneven distribution of career opportunities and rewards in the music industries, and elaborates on how the increasingly promotional role of media content means that…
Popular Music, Streaming, and Promotional Media
Advertising (5 works) · Art (5 works) · Business (5 works) · Asian Culture and Media Studies (4 works) · Music History and Culture (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Visual arts (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Cultural Industries and Urban Development (3 works)