Crisis? What Crisis? -- Time-Space (and Digital) Compression : Software Formats, Musical Networks, and the Reorganization of the Music Industry -- Scary Monsters? Software Formats, Peer-to-Peer Networks, and the Spectre of the Gift -- On the Reproduction of the Musical Economy after the Internet -- The Software Slump?: Digital Music, the Democratization of Technology, and the Decline of the Recording Studio Sector Within the Musical Economy -- A Social Experiment in the Musical Economy : Terra Firma, EMI and Calling Creativity to Account -- Afterword
Summary
This book provides a theoretically grounded account of the impact of digital technology on the music business, and develops the concept of the musical network to understand the transformation of this economy over space and through time
