Patrons, curators, inventors and thieves : the storytelling contest of the cultural industries in the digital age / Jonathan Wheeldon.

This book is a rare and unusually reflective insider account of the transformational challenges of the cultural industries over the past 15 years. Opening with a fresh new perspective on music industry history, it explores how the industrial world evolves more by narrative plausibility than by strat...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Springer)
Main Author: Wheeldon, Jonathan (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • PART I: MY VERSION OF EVENTS
  • 1. A Personal Perspective
  • 2. Innovation or Bust ₆ a Short History of Recorded Music
  • PART II: STAKEHOLDER VOICES
  • 3. Value Shift
  • 4. Custodial Tensions
  • 5. Hindsight
  • PART III: A STORYTELLING CONTEST
  • 6. The Analysis of Discourse
  • 7. Strategy as Storytelling
  • 8. Identification of Key Constructs
  • 9. A Narrative World
  • 10. The Inventor's Tale
  • 11. Power and Ideology
  • PART IV: THE PIRATE'S TALE: REFORM OF COPYRIGHT AND THE FUTURE
  • 12. Pirates, Property and Privatization
  • 13. Enclosing the Commons of the Mind
  • 14. The 300 Year War of Copyright
  • 15. My Version of Events: the Future.