Titlebook: Getting Signed; Record Contracts, Mu David Arditi Book 2020 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Spr

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Record Contracts: Ideology in Actionses throughout the book including ideology, hegemony, and exploitation. Ideology helps to reproduce the dominant material relations in society. This chapter analyzes the “ideology of getting signed” and theorizes ideology. Because most people are unaware of how record contracts operate at the same t

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Copyright Enclosureanalysis of England’s land enclosure acts. Then, Arditi demonstrates the parallels between the process of land enclosure, and what he calls, copyright enclosure. English land enclosures created property rights that kicked serfs off the land thereby forcing them into a wage relation under capitalism.

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The Digital Turn: Music Business as Usualakes the rhetoric about change seriously, but finds that the main change to the ideology of getting signed lies in the way record labels find new talent. Whereas the route to a record contract used to be through bars, now record labels sign young artists who are viral social media sensations. Stream

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On Competition in Musicr a contract. The ideology of getting signed develops from the American capitalist ethos of competition: eat or be eaten. Neoliberalism is the current stage of capitalism that views competition as the crucial characteristic of society. This chapter presents competition in music as a visible expressi

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: Popular Culture and the Perpetuation of Ideologyy musicians define success in the music industry as obtaining a record contract. As the reigning singing competition on television, ABC’s . positions itself as a way to “coach” singers to become celebrities. Through a cultural study of the show, legal documents and news reports, Arditi argues the sh

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Conning the Dream: Musical Showcase as Confidence Gameconfidence games that charge musicians exorbitant fees to participate for the chance to be seen. This chapter looks at a case study of Coast 2 Coast LIVE—an artist showcase that travels and charges participants for the chance to compete in future showcase competitions. This is one scheme, among doze

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,Chemotherapie — Definition und Geschichte,r similar to how land enclosure allowed landowners to profit from farmworkers’ labor. This chapter highlights the institutional incentive to sign a record contract under the current political economy of the recording industry.