Music and the Internet
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Music and the Internet:

A Shift in Tradition; A Shift to Technology

Many advances in technology have changed the current living population's life, especially in developed countries. These include better food, better medicine, and better connectivity with the rest of the world. Yet perhaps one of the most important things, especially in these Westernized countries, has been the improvement…...

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However, with the advent of the internet and the placement of music on it, one must also realize that there are now more and more opportunities for business for the artist, starting from single downloads to merchandise such as t-shirts and such, all to be found online. Perhaps the greatest examples of online "merchandising" is American Idol, the show that is one of the most popular music-related shows in American television history. According to Kot, "…American Idol is as big as it gets when it comes to music. It's kind of like the last vestige of the old music industry. Clive Davis has a role in it -- he puts out a lot of the records those artists make after their Idol experience. What you were talking about earlier regarding the next big mainstream phenomenon -- right now, American Idol is the phenomenon. But it remains to be seen whether any of these artists will truly have a 10-year career."[footnoteRef:10] The truth is, probably, that no, these artists will not have a ten-year career, but again music today is about business, not longevity, and the internet helps bring about this reality. [10: Greg Kot, 2009. How the Internet Changed Music [online]. TIME. Available at: <   [Accessed 1 December 2011]. ]http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1900054,00.html >.

Another important source to consult for this topic is the interview conducted with music industry veteran Steven Meyer, who speaks about the way music has changed with the internet in the digitalized age. Meyer discusses his background at Capitol Records and argues for that the digitalization of music actually enhances the industry. Meyer "describes the challenges facing record companies as a failure of imagination and suggests that the full potential of the internet as a distribution channel has yet to be fully exploited," according to the interview.[footnoteRef:11] [11: Russ Roberts, 2010. Meyer on the Music Industry and the Internet [online]. Library of Economics and Liberty. Available at: <   [Accessed 1 December 2011]. ]http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2010/03/meyer_on_the_mu.html >.

There are many academic sources that agree that music has been changed forever by the advent of the internet. Some are the sources presented above, which come from research and from newspaper articles, as well as from institutions studying the connection between how music has evolved and how the internet has promoted this evolution. In order to incorporate enough analysis, this paper has striven to analyze each point made in the articles above as it was made, thereby finding that music has been revolutionized beyond a doubt, despite the positives and negatives given by some sources. Thus, one can only hope the in the future, music will continue to be provided through legal means, and will be just as easily attained, for only music has the potential to truly affect emotions and potentially unite those in discord.

For example, music revealed disillusionment with the American Dream and expressed criticism of American foreign and domestic policy. In particular, the music industry reflected the anti-war sentiments during the late 1960s and early 1970s when the United States was still involved in Vietnam.
Music also reflected shifting social and cultural values. For example, songs in the 1950s were innocent whereas those from the 1970s were darker in tone and often contained references to sex and drugs. The tone of American music shifted toward even more frank discussion of political and social issues during the 1980s when punk delivered frank messages. The music industry in America also introduced sounds from across the sea: from primarily the United Kingdom but also Japan, Germany, India and all over the world. The introduction of multicultural beats into American music reflected the diverse fabric of our society.

The music industry continues to reflect the diversity in…...

Again, I would find here that in spite of my assumptions entering into the process that the technology now available has been the primary cause of damage to the record industry, the poor practical orientation of the record industry seems to be the real catalyst to its dramatic collapse. As McCready points out, making money on album sales through a record company has always been a convoluted and dubious process. Accordingly, McCready reports that "Record companies try to make the royalty rate paid to artists as attractive as possible. They may give you a generous royalty rate. However, in addition to the reduced royalty rate on CD's sold outside normal retail channels, there are also many reductions in your royalty rate. I said that the financial terms are often 15 pages or more. ell, your royalty rate is on the first page and the remaining pages are all the…...

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Bachmeier, J. (2007). How the DMCA Affects Internet Radio. EZine Articles.

Marino, M. (2008). How Has the Internet Affected the Music Industry. Music and Thoughts.

McCready, M.P. (2008). Record Contract Basics. Songstuff.

Rosenbaum, J. (2007). The Era of Free Music is Upon Us. The Seminal.

Musicians
The topic of interest is the relationship that musicians have with the Internet. The Internet era has brought significant challenge for artists, especially pertaining to piracy, but there are also opportunities. The Internet, therefore, has significantly changed the media and marketing landscape for artists.

Morris (2010) notes that music has largely shifted from physical commodity, being sold on CDs (and vinyl and cassettes before that) to a digital commodity. This has transformed the marketing and distribution landscape for artists and record labels, and has transformed how the public consumes music. This reality raises a number of questions. Much of the prior academic work in this field, such as Patrik Wikstrom's The Music Industry and works built on that (such as Morris, 2014), focus on the industry's relationship with technology, and perhaps pay insufficient attention to the consumer side. So there is both an interesting body of existing literature and opportunities to…...

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References

Morris, J. (2010). Understanding the digital music commodity. McGill University.

Morris, J. (2014). The music industry. Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media. Vol. 58 (2) 324-326.

Reynolds, A. (2009). Review: The music industry by Patrik Wikstrom. The Kelvingrove Review.

How the Internet has Transformed the Economics and Value of Music Introduction
Digital technology has transformed the way people all over the world consume music. The Digital Age has also impacted the way musicians, artists and producers benefit from making music. Prior to digitalization, music had to either be consumed live and in-person or through the purchase of a hard copy (disc, cassette tape, record, etc.). Now that music files can be shared digitally over the Internet or streamed over social media sites, the ability of producers to manage how their content is distributed has been diminished substantially. In other words, the technology of connectivity has impacted the monetization of intellectual property (IP) by making it easier for consumers to obtain IP without necessarily having to pay for it—and labels such as illegal downloading or piracy do not sufficiently act as deterrents. With the arrival of iTunes, Spotify, Pandora and other sites…...

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Anderson, Chris. The Long Tail. Change This.

Benchler, Yochai. The Wealth of Networks. Yale University Press, 2006.

Duckworth, William. Virtual Music. Routledge, 2005.

Galuszka, Patryk. “Music Aggregators and Intermediation of the Digital Music Market.” International Journal of Communication 9 (2015), 254–273.

Mulligan, Mark. Awakening: The Music Industry in the Digital Age. MIDiA Research, 2015.

Indeed, neither weather nor economy concerns appear to have deterred travelers to the event, a trend that is apparent for festivals across the world, as mentioned above.
The Essence Music Festival runs for three days and includes features such as entertainment activities and seminars at the Convention Center during the day, while the nights are punctuated by concerts. It started in 1995 in celebration of Essence magazine's 25th anniversary. In terms of the economy, it has become a significant supplement to the hospitality industry, during a time of year when revenue is generally slow. There are also several sponsors for the festival, including Ford Motor Co. And Coors, as well as Verizon, Walmart Food and State Farm, and Coca-Cola. These sponsorships have enabled the festival to create and retain its competitive edge by including many extra features beyond music. From the sponsorship point-of-view, the festival also offers the opportunity to…...

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A Greener Festival. (2011). Awards. Retrieved from:  http://www.agreenerfestival.com/agf-award/ 

Ambert, C. (2003). Promoting the Culture Sector through Job Creation and Small Enterprise Development in SADC Countries: The Music Industry. International Labour Office -- Geneva. Retrieved from:  http://www.ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/public/@ed_emp/@emp_ent/@ifp_seed/documents/publication/wcms_117682.pdf 

Atkinson, S. (2010, Jun. 14). Festivals put green issues higher up the bill. BBC News Business. Retrieved from:  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10145690 

Earth Day Music Festival & Eco Bazaar. (2011). Retrieved from: http://earthdaymusicfestival.bbnow.org/index.php

Sony Corporation
The recorded music industry is in a state of flux. Thanks to technology, new opportunities have been made available, however, new challenges have emerged as well. The most significant concern is piracy, especially with peer-to-peer file sharing over the Internet.

Sony Corporation's business unit, Sony BMG, is a new merger of Sony Music Entertainment and Bertelsmann AG. The merger occurred as an effort to take advantage of economies of scale and ward off against declining sales and profitability the industry is faced with. The mega music organization is positioned at #2 in the industry.

By applying a strategy of utilizing the Internet as a channel of distribution and as a marketing tool, Sony BMG can ward against the piracy that is plaguing the industry. Offering inexpensive music downloads provides a win-win solution for both Sony BMG and their customers. Customers will get quality music, increased flexibility, and increased convenience from the…...

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FAQ. 2004. Sony BMG. December 7, 2004 .

Kay, Nancy. "Financial Overview: Sony Corporation." Hoover's 2004. Hoover's Online. Hoovers.com. University of Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ. December 7, 2004 .

'History: Sony Corporation." Hoover's 2004. Hoover's Online. Hoovers.com. University of Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ. December 7, 2004 .

'Overview: Sony Corporation." Hoover's 2004. Hoover's Online. Hoovers.com. University of Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ. December 7, 2004 .

New Technologies and Globalisation on the Music Industry
The global music industry today is going through a series of disruptive innovations that are changing business models in the short-term and value chains over the long-term. The pervasive influence of the Internet, mobile and streaming technologies, and the shift from CD-based music to digital and online music also signals how quickly the global value chain of the music industry is changing today. Of these many disruptive innovations, the most significant is the shift from individual record labels and their relatively un-integrated approach to delivering digital music to the pervasive platforms that include Apple iTunes

(Hopkins, 2011). With the number of legitimate online sources for music growing from 60 in 2005 to more than 400 in 2010 the role of the platform as consolidator in this global industry is clear (Hopkins, 2011). Of the many types and forms of global music distribution, online…...

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Hopkins, M.S. 2011, "How to Innovate When Platforms Won't Stop Moving," MIT Sloan Management Review, vol. 52, no. 4, pp. 55-60.

Lee, D., Jaimie, Y.P., Kim, J., Kim, J. & Moon, J. 2011, "Understanding music sharing behaviour on social network services," Online Information Review, vol. 35, no. 5, pp. 716-733.

Pikas, B., Pikas, A. & Lymburner, C. 2011, "The Future of the Music Industry," Journal of Marketing Development and Competitiveness, vol. 5, no. 3, pp. 139-149.

The event is held yearly but has only limited opportunity for profit, as the venue, rather than direct ticket sales incur the cost of the events. In other words the venue is slightly different than the standard concert or tour experience, because the overall support of the whole event (the County Fair) offsets the costs incurred by the label and the artist's tour systems. The Label has been actively seeking support of the community for sponsorship as well, as the opportunity for profit in this venue has historically been limited and the services and options for artists and their support team has also been limited. It is for this reason that the collective Label USA plan has always been to pepper traditional summer to and spring artist tour dates with venues such as this. In my experience this type of concert is one of the most difficult to plan…...

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Black, G.C., Fox, M.A., & Kochanowski, P. (2007). Concert Tour Success in North America: An Examination of the Top 100 Tours from 1997 to 2005. Popular Music and Society, 30(2), 149.

Dunn, L. (1999). Tourism Attractions: A Critical Analysis of the Subsector in Jamaica. Kingston, Jamaica: Canoe Press.

Fox, M. (2004). E-Commerce Business Models for the Music Industry. Popular Music and Society, 27(2), 201.

Garland, E. (2003, November/December). Online Music: The Sound of Success; the Online Music Industry Is Turning the Traditional Music Industry on Its Head. The Futurist, 37, 24.

Other uses of copyrighted music in unencrypted form lends itself to humorous uses, such as "mash-ups," where someone takes the vocal track from one song and combines it with the instrumental track of another (Johnson, 2005), in the process violating both copyrights but producing a unique file that may interesting, odd or even bizarre

The recording industry would rather end the abuse than prosecute people and have offered amnesty to anyone who will sign a declaration promising to not violate copyrights in the future. However, suspicious users are afraid that signing such a document may lead to their prosecution (Editorial staff, 2003)..

Rather than try to work around these systems, people should recognize that a copyright means the song is someone's property, and that taking the music without paying for it is no different than shoplifting. Stealing in any form is wrong, and ethical people will not do it.

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(Kajuter, Baumgartner & Van, 2001, p. 37) (Hansen, Matthews, Mosconi & Sankaran, 2001, p. 33)
Business 2 Consumer (B2C)

The realistic and optimal development of the current e-music industry is the shift from illegitimate P2P exchanges to B2C exchanges that allow the artists, support systems and entire communities which rely on revenue from legitimate sales to ensure recovery of investment and potential profit. The potential for such a transition, which could ultimately reduce B2B and "middle-man" sales revenue must be balanced with other solutions but could be the ultimate saving grace of the music industry, the evolving multifaceted system of exchanges and challenges. (Dennis, Fenech & Merrilees, 2004, p. 2) Like was said in the previous section, B2C exchanges should be based largely on the technology that has driven B2B technology advances that attempt to ensure ease of use for both exchanging entities and still provide adequate security for both the…...

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Program Music
oles of The Program Music

Program music refers to a form of music which tries to deliver an additional musical story musically. This story involved could be rendered to its audience as program notes, causing imaginative comparisons with its music.

This concept of program music enjoys more fame and application in the European classical music world, especially during the height of romantic works in the 1800s. Program music was a very common concept in those times. It was commonly used in reference to solely instrumental music works which are music pieces that doesn't have any lyrics. However, it was also used to describe the lieder and opera music type (odgers, 2009).

The single progression orchestral program music works are symphonic poems and the complete works is produced to be enjoyed and heralded without any external references. The Hector Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique is a suitable instance of program music as well as its…...

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'2016 Summer study: Teaching Music's annual listing of summer music programs' 2016, Teaching Music, 4, p. 51, Academic OneFile, EBSCOhost, viewed 27 June 2017.

Blom, D, Bennett, D, & Stevenson, I 2016, 'The Composer's Program Note for Newly Written Classical Music: Content and Intentions', Frontiers in Psychology, Academic OneFile, EBSCOhost, viewed 27 June 2017.

Garrett, S 2010, 'The Role of Community Music in Helping Disadvantaged Young People in South Wales to Confront Social Exclusion', International Journal Of Community Music, 3, 3, pp. 371-377, ERIC, EBSCOhost, viewed 27 June 2017.

Moss, PJ 2017, 'Program Music', Notes, 3, p. 550, Academic OneFile, EBSCOhost, viewed 27 June 2017.

Intellectual Property It is important to note, from the onset, that revenues for the U.S. recorded music industry have more than halved since the late 1990s (Figure 1.0). In essence, what has often been blamed for the falling revenues is the online music revolution (Mezei, 2018). It is instructive to note that in recent times, streaming services have seen their paid subscriptions go up significantly, with 2016 having been a particularly good year for the said services. These include, but they are not limited to, Tidal, Apple Music, as well as Spotify. Thanks to such growth in streaming services, quite a number of players have in the past expressed their intention to try their hand in this specific market. These include new entrants to this spot, like Amazon.
According to the Recording Industry Association of America - RIAA (2017), in the year 2016, there was an 11.4% growth in U.S. recorded music…...

In "The Times They Are a-Changin'," released in February 1964, he encapsulated the spirit of the times, and issued a timely warning to the older generation to accept the changing times or be drowned in a youth-inspired social revolution. (Mcilliams, 32)
hile Dylan was introducing protest folk music in the mainstream popular music in the early 1960s, bands such as "The Beatles" had captured the imagination of the estern youth on both sides of the Atlantic. By accepting the influence of each other's music in their work, these artists revolutionized estern popular music. The power of such music in shaping the direction of the youth culture was immense. It spread the message of peace, love, racial and gender equality and challenged the hypocrisy of the existing social order.

Not all aspects of the sixties music were positive. Many of the sixties rock musicians adopted a hedonistic lifestyle and indulged in excessive…...

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DiGrazia, Judith L. "The Sixties: Notes of Discord." Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute. 1983. January 18, 2007.  http://www.yale.edu/ynhti/curriculum/units/1983/4/83.04.04.x.html 

McWilliams, John C. The 1960s Cultural Revolution. Ed. Randall M. Miller. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2000.

Rodnitzky, Jerome L. "The Sixties between the Microgrooves: Using Folk and Protest Music to Understand American History, 1963-1973." Popular Music and Society 23.4 (1999): 105.

Dylan started to introduce amplified rock music into his acoustic folk repertoire by 1965 and the "Beatles" replaced their simple "I wanna hold your hand" lyrics by more socially relevant themes in their songs in the latter part of the sixties.

Music
Few popular music stars today are as colorful as Lady Gaga. Recently on tour, Lady Gaga is again making the headlines. In South Africa, a group of churches has been organizing protests against Lady Gaga's performances, and even just her presence, in the country. Among other complaints, the South African Council of Churches claims Lady Gaga's visit "could lead to an exponential growth of Satanism," (Engelbrecht, p. 1). For others, Lady Gaga is a welcome presence in the popular culture because she spreads the message of gender equality and positive gender "performativity," (Horn, p. 1). Lady Gaga is like a female "drag queen" and therefore sends a good message about tolerance of gender and sexual identities. Finally, Lady Gaga exemplifies the way social media can be used to promote popular culture and allow for greater fan interactions and control over content. Given that Lady Gaga is associated with Satanism, gender,…...

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Engelbrecht, David. "Council of Churches Still Anti-Gaga." Channel 24. Retrieved online:  http://www.channel24.co.za/Music/News/Council-of-Churches-still-anti-Gaga-20121129 

Hampp, Andrew. "Gaga, Oooh Lala: Why the Lady Is the Ultimate Social Climber." Advertising Age. 22 Feb, 2010. Retrieved online:  http://vandymkting.typepad.com/files/2010-2-22-adage-gaga-oooh-la-la-why-the-lady-is-the-ultimate-social-climber.pdf 

Horn, Katrin. "Camping with the Stars: Queer Perfomativity, Pop Intertextuality, and Camp in the Pop Art of Lady Gaga." Current Ojbectives of Postgraduate American Studies. Vol. 11. Retrieved online:  http://copas.uni-regensburg.de/article/view/131/155

To craft an effective thesis statement on the topic of music, it is essential to clearly identify the specific aspect of music you will be discussing and your overall argument or perspective on that aspect. Here are some potential thesis statement examples on different music-related topics:

1. For a research paper on the impact of music on mental health:
"Music therapy has been shown to significantly improve mental health outcomes in individuals with various psychological disorders, making it a valuable and effective treatment modality."

2. For an essay on the influence of technology on the music industry:
"The widespread use of digital streaming platforms....

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