Why did jazz become a dominant popular music genre in the 1920s and rock 'n' roll in the 1950s?
Why did heavy metal punk rock and hiphop find their way from sub-cultures to the established
music industry? What are the effects of new communication technologies and the Internet on the
creation of music in the early 21st century? These and other questions are answered by Peter
Tschmuck through an integrated model of creativity and innovation that is based on an
international history of music industry since Thomas A. Edison invented the phonograph in 1877.
Thus the history of the music industry is described in full detail. By discussing the historic
process of music production distribution and reception the author highlights several
revolutions in the music industry that were caused by the inference of aesthetic technological
legal economic social and political processes of change. On the basis of an integrated model
of creativity and innovation an explanation is given on how the processes and structures of
the present music industry will be altered by the ongoing digital revolution which totally
changed the value-added network of the production dissemination and use of music. For the
second edition the author has reworked chapter 9 in order to include all the developments
which shaped the music industry in the first decade of the 21st century - from Napster to
cloud-based music services and even beyond.
