Corporate Life in the Digital Music Industry

<p>Drawing on a deep and long-term first-hand engagement with major labels in the early years of the 21st century this book sheds new light 'behind the scenes' at a time of drastic and far-reaching transformation. Refreshingly it centres not on artists and the most powerful decision-makers but on everyday experiences of work and back-office corporate employees. <p/>Doing so reveals the internal activities and conflicts that while hidden from public view enable processes of change: from paperwork data systems managerial pressures and redundancies to graduate training schemes departmental politics and shared playlists providing a new route into understanding the broader cultures and infrastructures of the global recording industry. This oft-forgotten office work tells a different story of contemporary digital music one more sensitive to the complex intersections that texture the conduct of work and organizational life.</p>