A picture is worth 1000 CDs: Can the music industry survive as a stand-alone business?

American Music

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 176-186

  Moore, Catherine ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 61049228177     PISSN: 07344392     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3592975     Document Type: Article

References (21)

1. Here and elsewhere the term "music industry" is used almost always to refer to the recorded music industry
2. Catalog number RCA 68079. The release date was September 24, 2002, timed to coincide with a resurgence of interest in Elvis during 2002, the twenty-fifth anniversary of his death. Not to be outdone, the Rolling Stones retrospective two-CD set released October 1, 2002 (coinciding with the band's fortieth-anniversary tour), has forty tracks, is titled Forty Licks, and is marketed with the giant tongue logo. Catalog number ABK-CO 13378
3. B. Joseph Pine II and James H. Gilmore. The Experience Economy: Work Is Theatre and Every Business a Stage - Goods and Services Are No Longer Enough (Cambridge: Harvard Business School Press, 1999)
4. HKH, review of Krill Minima "Pochbass rmx, Underwater Love (Live)," in the "MP3 Reviews" section of Urb, August 2002, 133
5. At the time of writing, September 2002, both Bertelsmann and Vivendi Universal seem set to shed some U.S. assets, and AOL Time Warner's synergistic utopia seems unattainable
6. In her keynote address at the 2001 NYU conference, "Music/Image in Film and Multimedia: Cliché or Emerging Language?", Claudia Gorbman questioned whether there is such a thing as an authentic experience of music any more, and Mark Crispin Miller said that aesthetic surrender to music is no longer possible. My reasons for disagreeing with both of them are beyond the scope of the present essay
7. Stephen Färber and Marc Green, "The Genius of Creative Collaboration," Chronicle of Higher Education, Feb. 16, 2001, B17-18
8. Author not identified, note about the exhibition "Moving Pictures," @ Guggenheim: The Guide to the Guggenheim Museum, June-August 2002, 7
9. Some of these visual additions are meant to differentiate legitimate music from downloaded pirate audio-only versions
10. Catherine Moore, "Works and Recordings: The Impact of Commercialisation and Digitalisation," in The Musical Work: Reality or Invention?, ed. Michael Talbot (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2000), 103
11. A detailed analysis of divisional infighting at AOL Time Warner Inc. is in Matthew Rose, Julia Angwin, and Martin Peers, "Bad Connection: Failed Effort to Coordinate Ads Signals Deeper Woes at AOL," Wall Street Journal, July 18, 2002, A1, A6
12. Rob Walker, "Creating Synergy Out of Thin Air," New York Times, Op-Ed page, July 28, 2002, 13
13. Billboard, August 24, 2002, 88. The soundtrack chart is on 86
14. "Most Wanted" summary, New York Times, Sept. 2, 2002, C7. Source: Neilsen Media Research, The top broadcast shows were Everybody Loves Raymond and C.S.I, Crimescene; top cable shows were Sharpie 600 Winston Cup and W.W.E. Raw Zone
15. As in Suzanne Kapner's assessment of Vivendi's latest interpretation of the value of its own assets as potential loan collateral, "Vivendi's Latest Spin Campaign: No Sale Option Is Left Unspun," New York Times, Sept. 14, 2002, C3
16. O-Town, O-Town, J Records 80813-20000-2. The album was produced by Clive Davis and was the first hit for his new label, distributed by BMG, one of the five major record distributors. Eden's Crush, Popstars, London-Sire Records 31164-2. London-Sire is part of the Warner Music Group. A similar show aired in the summer of 2002: the Fox network enjoyed a ratings boom with American Idol, which put A&R in the game-show TV genre, with viewers voting for the ultimate winner
17. The sixty-second ad aired in October 2000 during the popular WB show Felicity, a show that takes place in a fictitious New York college
18. Drake was a British folk rocker who died in 1974
19. John Leland, "Advertisements for Themselves," New York Times Magazine, March 11, 2001, 48-51
20. Nick Drake, Pink Moon, Hannibal HNCD 4436. The repackaging is not dated, but was probably done in 2000
21. For decades, the Volkswagen car company has been a leader in nontraditional TV advertising. Quirkiness, narrative surprise, even thought-provoking scenarios have been the hallmarks of the company's memorable ad campaigns