Concentration and Diversity Revisited

Production Logics and the U.S. Mainstream Recording Market, 1940-1990

Dados Bibliográficos

ID10520480
AutoresTimothy J Dowd (0000-0002-6739-4433, Emory University, autor correspondente)
Ano2004
Volume82
Fascículo4
Páginas1411-1455
Data de publicação2004-06-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoSocial Forces (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0037-7732 • E-ISSN: 1534-7605
EditoraOxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1353/sof.2004.0067
OpenAlexW2111723417
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas68
Referências citadas42

What shapes the diversity of media markets? A literature on the U.S. recording industry offers competing accounts. The cyclical account stresses the negative effect of market concentration, where high concentration dampens diversity. The open system account stresses a mitigated effect, where the logic of decentralized production reduces concentration's negative effect. However, both accounts contain notable gaps. This article fills these gaps and consequently advances this literature. Most notably, it adjudicates these accounts by analyzing time series data on two carriers of diversity: performing acts and recording firms. When decentralized production is low, as in the 1940s, high concentration reduces the number of new performers and new firms. When decentralized production grows more pronounced, as in the 1980s, concentration's negative effect is reduced and eventually eliminated

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