keepers of the cultural choice
Posted by popkitchen | Filed under music
In the end of April, an interesting conference on music industry, entitled Balkan Beat, was held in the cultural centre Grad in Belgrade. A number of guests, mostly from the UK came to share their experiences with their Serbian counterparts, that is, to talk about management techniques, organization of festivals, online marketing or new [...]
Tags: balkanbeat music conference, belgrade, domino records, john dyer, Last.fm, online music, popboks
what’s next for music
Posted by popkitchen | Filed under academic, music, popcult, web 2.0
Faced with the widespread torrent or p2p network downloads, record companies are teaming up with social networks trying to monetize on the increasing online participation.
MySpace Music being the last foray in this area.
As a social network, MySpace has been associated with teenagers and unsigned musicians, who hoped to be spotted and propelled into stardom (there [...]
Tags: Facebook, Last.fm, MA thesis, MOG, music, MySpace, online music services, social networking
