Concentration and diversity revisited: Production logics and the U.S. mainstream recording market, 1940-1990

Social Forces

Volumn 82, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 1411-1455

  Dowd, Timothy J ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1353/sof.2004.0067     Document Type: Review

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