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Kazadi, Kanyabu Solomon. "A sociological analysis of the production, marketing and distribution of contemporary popular music by Zambian musicians." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1018933.
Full textPapizzo, Brian O'Shea (Brian Thomas O'Shea). "Towards a political economy of the Canadian recording industry." Ottawa, 1993.
Find full textGenevro, Brad. "The art of recording the American wind band." connect to online resource, 2006. http://www.unt.edu/etd/all/May2006/genevro%5Fbradley/index.htm.
Full textSystem requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Accompanied by 4 recitals, recorded Apr. 10, 1997, July 17, 1997, Mar, 3, 1998, and Nov. 14, 2005. Includes bibliographical references (p. 40-41).
Goh, Man-fat Joseph. "Music retailing in Hong Kong /." [Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1994. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B13731105.
Full textLubin, Tom. "An historical survey of technology used in the production & presentation of music in the 20th century /." View thesis, 1997. http://library.uws.edu.au/adt-NUWS/public/adt-NUWS20030903.112151/index.html.
Full textChoi, Ka-fai. "Some economics of the classical music record industry." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2005. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B31938073.
Full textChoi, Ka-fai, and 蔡家輝. "Some economics of the classical music record industry." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2005. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31938073.
Full textHowlett, Michael John Gilmour. "The record producer as nexus : creative inspiration, technology and the recording industry." Thesis, University of South Wales, 2009. https://pure.southwales.ac.uk/en/studentthesis/the-record-producer-as-nexus(b829aaf3-8ca1-4e8c-ab6e-f4f731644a47).html.
Full textStephens, Alexa Renee-Marie. "Atlanta's Digital Music Industry: Implications for Workforce and Economic Development." Thesis, Available online, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2007, 2007. http://etd.gatech.edu/theses/available/etd-07092007-093611/.
Full textSteyn, Martha Magdalena. "A supply chain model for the South African recording industry." Thesis, Pretoria : [s.n.], 2005. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-09272005-100520.
Full textBronskill, Jim (James Arnold) Carleton University Dissertation Journalism. "Sound barriers; the Canada-U.S. Free-Trade Agreement and the recording industry in Canada." Ottawa, 1992.
Find full textGenevro, Bradley James. "The Art of Recording the American Wind Band." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2006. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc5276/.
Full textThorley, Mark. "The unexplored impact of emergent technologies on music industry stakeholders : aspirants, producers and consumers." Thesis, Coventry University, 2016. http://curve.coventry.ac.uk/open/items/42e3ee1b-3756-494c-9f5d-adec1b485be2/1.
Full textCurran, Terence William. "Recording classical music in Britain : the long 1950s." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2015. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:2340cf56-c2be-4c0b-b5a6-2cfe06c22fe4.
Full textBabb, G. Kyle Boyd Jean Ann. ""Roll over Beethoven" the reaction of classical music recording divisions to the continuing emergence of a consumer culture in America between 1956 and 1982 /." Waco, Tex. : Baylor University, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/2104/5043.
Full textGoh, Man-fat Joseph, and 吳文發. "Music retailing in Hong Kong." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1993. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31265650.
Full textHill, Christopher. "The anarchist's jukebox? a historical account of the file sharing conflict : a thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts (Communication Studies), Auckland University of Technology, 2005." Full thesis. Abstract, 2005.
Find full textChapter 5 not included in e-thesis. Also held in print (viii, 177 leaves, 30 cm.) in Wellesley Theses Collection. (T 338.4778149 HIL)
Arvidsson, Kjell. "Skivbolag i Sverige." Doctoral thesis, Göteborg Handelshögskolan vid Göteborgs Univ, 2007. http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&docl̲ibrary=BVB01&docn̲umber=016515417&linen̲umber=0002&funcc̲ode=DBR̲ECORDS&servicet̲ype=MEDIA.
Full textKlypchak, Bradley C. "Performed Identities: Heavy Metal Musicians Between 1984 and 1991." Connect to this title online, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=bgsu1167924395.
Full textArcher, Russell W. "If these walls could jump 'n' jive : a study of buildings and sites associated with jazz music in Indianapolis and Richmond, Indiana (c. 1910-1960)." Virtual Press, 2003. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1260487.
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Bowsher, Andrew John. "Authenticity and the commodity : physical music media and the independent music marketplace." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2014. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:a421adac-1d86-4351-8778-6e16e1744513.
Full textPercival, James Mark. "Making music radio : the record industry and popular music production in the UK." Thesis, University of Stirling, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/362.
Full textStraw, Will 1954. "Popular music as cultural commodity : the American recorded music industries 1976-1985." Thesis, McGill University, 1990. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=39241.
Full textJohnson, Alfred B. "Fascination machine : a study of pop music, mass mediation, and cultural iconography." Virtual Press, 1998. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1185429.
Full textDiniz, Sheyla Castro 1985. ""Nuvem cigana" : a trajetória do Clube de Esquina no campo da MPB." [s.n.], 2012. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/278903.
Full textDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas
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Resumo: O trabalho aborda uma parcela da vasta e heterogênea trajetória do Clube da Esquina no campo da MPB (Música Popular Brasileira). Esse grupo de músicos, letristas e amigos, inicialmente gestado em Belo Horizonte/MG em meados dos anos 1960, atingiu o ápice fonográfico na primeira metade da década seguinte, conjugando um aguçado caráter experimental e coletivo na elaboração de seus discos e canções. Tomando como referência esses dois momentos, as análises almejaram problematizar as particularidades estético-musicais e filosóficas da turma, suas relações com outros artistas e com a gravadora EMI-Odeon e suas variadas respostas culturais ao contexto político-social no qual estava inserida. A pesquisa também pretendeu por em destaque os processos que, na passagem dos anos 1970 a 1980, demarcaram a diluição do Clube da Esquina como uma formação cultural. A observância desse período permitiu estender as investigações para abarcar algumas recentes iniciativas e lutas simbólicas que visam garantir ao Clube da Esquina certo reconhecimento e legitimação no atual rol de debates acerca da MPB
Abstract: The research intends to verify the heterogeneous trajectory of Clube da Esquina in the field of MPB (Brazilian Popular Music). This group of musicians, songwriters and friends, gestated in Belo Horizonte/MG in the mid-1960s, reached the phonograph peak in the first half of next decade, combining a pointed collective and experimentally character in the preparation of their albums and songs. About these two moments, the analyses explored some aesthetic-musical and philosophical aspects of the group, their relationships with others artists and with the label EMIOdeon and their cultural answers to social-political context. This academic work also examined the processes that, in the passage of the years 1970 to 1980, staked the dissolution of Clube da Esquina as a cultural formation. To observe that period allowed extending the investigations for study some recent initiatives and symbolic struggles that have ensured recognition and legitimacy to the Clube da Esquina in the current debates about MPB
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Latson, Christopher Craig. "Contemporary Pirates: An Examination of the Perceptions and Attitudes Toward the Technology, Progression, and Battles that Surround Modern Day Music Piracy in Colleges and Universities." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2004. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc4595/.
Full textKarel, Ernst Kirchner Long. "Kerala sound electricals : amplified sound and cultural meaning in South India /." 2003. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3097125.
Full textLubin, Tom, University of Western Sydney, and Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. "An historical survey of technology used in the production and presentation of music in the 20th Century." 1997. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/24903.
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"跨國唱片公司壟斷下之香港粤語流行樂壇." 1991. http://library.cuhk.edu.hk/record=b5895402.
Full text手稿本影印本.
Thesis (M.A.)--香港中文大學傳播學部, 1991.
Shou gao ben ying yin ben.
Includes bibliographical references (leaves i-iv).
Huang Zhiwei.
Thesis (M.A.)--Xianggang Zhong wen da xue Chuan bo xue bu, 1991.
Chapter 壹 --- 導 論 --- p.1
Chapter 貳 --- 文獻參閱 --- p.11
Chapter (一) --- MISC´ؤ小國音樂工業研究計劃 --- p.11
Chapter (二) --- 媒介帝國主義 --- p.33
Chapter (三) --- 跨國公司 --- p.41
Chapter (四) --- 其他有關文獻 --- p.54
Chapter 参 --- 研究方法 --- p.66
Chapter (一) --- 研究目的 --- p.66
Chapter (二) --- 基本概念 --- p.73
Chapter (三) --- 研究方法 --- p.80
Chapter 肆 --- 歐美流行音樂與五大國際唱片集團 --- p.99
Chapter (一) --- 歐、美流行音樂發展概況 --- p.101
Chapter (二) --- 五大唱片集團壟斷下之國際唱片業 --- p.115
Chapter 伍 --- 跨國唱片公司的發展、業績及組織結構 --- p.131
Chapter (一) --- 五大跨國唱片公司在香港之發展 --- p.131
Chapter (二) --- 跨國唱片公司的組織結構及其輸入外國流行音樂信息之模式 --- p.158
Chapter (三) --- 五大跨國唱片公司壟斷下之粤語流行樂壇 --- p.183
Chapter (四) --- 跨國唱片公司組織結構對粤語流行曲改編歌曲之影響 --- p.202
Chapter 陸 --- 香港粤語流行曲的外來成份 --- p.216
Chapter (一) --- 五、六十年代作品分析 --- p.228
Chapter (二) --- 七、八十年代作品分析 --- p.248
Chapter 柒 --- 總結 --- p.271
Chapter (一) --- 研究成果摘要 --- p.271
Chapter (二) --- MISC 互動模型的分析結果 --- p.285
Chapter (三) --- 討論 --- p.305
參考書目 --- p.i
Chapter 附錄 --- 附件(一):香港電台中文歌曲龍虎榜 一九七七年至八九年 每周榜首歌曲名單 --- p.v
附件(二):歷屆十大中文金曲入選作品(1978-1989) --- p.xii
附件(三):個人訪問之基本問題(1)´ؤ作曲家、樂評人、電台工作者 --- p.xviii
附件(四):個人訪問之基本問題(2)´ؤ跨國唱片公司國際部行政人員 --- p.xx
Filzen, Sarah. "The history of Cuca Records, 1959-1973 a case study of an independent record company /." 1998. http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/FilznHCuca.
Full textOnline version produced by the University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries. Title from title screen (viewed Nov. 8, 2001). Includes bibliographical references (leaves 178-183). Online version of the print edition.
"A Study of the variety of Cantonese popular songs in Hong Kong." Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1992. http://library.cuhk.edu.hk/record=b5886976.
Full textThesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1992.
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 64-69).
Chapter CHAPTER ONE --- INTRODUCTION --- p.1
Chapter CHAPTER TWO --- THE RECORD INDUSTRY --- p.6
Chapter CHAPTER THREE --- LITERATURE REVIEW --- p.15
Chapter CHAPTER FOUR --- THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK AND HYPOTHESES --- p.23
Chapter CHAPTER FIVE --- METHODOLOGY --- p.37
Chapter CHAPTER SIX --- FINDINGS --- p.44
Chapter CHAPTER SEVEN --- DISCUSSION --- p.52
BIBLIOGRAPHY --- p.64
Chapter APPENDIX 1 --- List of Big Corporations and Independents --- p.70
Chapter APPENDIX 2 --- Production cost of a Standard L.P. record --- p.74
Chapter APPENDIX 3 --- Categories of song types --- p.75
Chapter APPENDIX 4 --- Comparison of songs from Big Corporations and the Indies by year --- p.78
Chapter APPENDIX 5 --- Comparison of songs from Big Corporations and the Indies from 1980- 1985 (51) 1986 -1991 (52) --- p.91
Allen, Lucy Hawthorne. "Vernacular music brokers and mediators in the South 1900-1932 /." 2001.
Find full text"The soundscape of China: the role of HUGO CDs in Chinese cultural memory." 2005. http://library.cuhk.edu.hk/record=b5896411.
Full textThesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2005.
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 66-78).
Abstracts in English and Chinese.
Abstract --- p.i
Abstract (Chinese) --- p.ii
Acknowledgement --- p.iii
Table of Contents --- p.v
List of Figures and Tables --- p.vii
Chapter Chapter 1´ؤ --- Introduction
A New Age of Sound --- p.1
Academic Background and Related Studies --- p.2
Chinese Music and the Media --- p.4
The Present Study and Methodology --- p.5
Chapter Chapter 2´ؤ --- SoundScape of China: The Influence of Ethnomusicology in China in the 1980´ةs
Introduction --- p.8
From Comparative to Cultural: Chinese Music Scholarship in the Twentieth Century Mainland China --- p.10
Revealing a Soundscape of Chinese Music´ؤDevelopment of Musical Genre Study --- p.13
Concluding Remarks --- p.18
Chapter Chapter 3´ؤ --- Mapping a Soundscape: Analyzing the HUGO CD Catalogue(s)
Introduction --- p.20
"Classification, Category and Catalogue" --- p.20
Recording Industry in Hong Kong --- p.22
Aik Yeh-goh and HUGO Production (HK) Ltd --- p.28
HUGO'S Label Division --- p.29
Statistical Analysis of HUGO CD Catalogues --- p.31
An Aural Map´ؤSoundscape of China --- p.38
Concluding Remarks --- p.42
Chapter Chapter 4´ؤ --- Whose Music? The Role of the HUGO CD Catalogue in Chinese Cultural Memory
Introduction --- p.44
Communication Theory in Studying Recording Industry --- p.46
Lasswell's 5-W Formula as a System --- p.46
Lewin's Gatekeeping Theory --- p.50
The Role of HUGO CD: Imagination of Chinese Music outside Mainland China --- p.52
Concluding Remarks --- p.54
Appendix A: Name List of Record Companies in Hong Kong before the 1990's --- p.56
Appendix B: The Catalogue of the HUGO CDs --- p.58
Selected Bibliography --- p.66
"Hong Kong classical compact disc market." Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1997. http://library.cuhk.edu.hk/record=b5888994.
Full textThesis (M.B.A.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1997.
Incldues bibliographical references (leaves 108-112).
ABSTRACT --- p.iii
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS --- p.vi
TABLE OF CONTENTS --- p.vii
LIST OF TABLES --- p.ix
LIST OF FIGURES --- p.x
CHAPTER
Chapter I. --- INTRODUCTION --- p.1
Objectives --- p.2
Chapter II. --- MARKET ANALYSIS --- p.4
Overview of the Music Industry in Hong Kong --- p.4
Hong Kong Classical Music Market and the Trends --- p.6
Definition of Classical Music --- p.6
Classical Music Becomes More Popular --- p.8
More Record Stores in Hong Kong Selling Classical CDs --- p.10
New Ways of Promoting Classical Music --- p.13
New Classical Music Repertoires and the Trends --- p.15
More Young Classical Performers --- p.16
Major Classical Companies in Hong Kong --- p.17
Bertelsmann Group --- p.17
EMI --- p.19
HNH Internationa] Ltd --- p.22
PolyGram --- p.25
Sony --- p.28
Warner --- p.32
Chapter III. --- RESEARCH METHODOLOGY --- p.37
Secondary Data --- p.37
Primary Data --- p.38
Experience Survey --- p.38
Sample Survey --- p.38
Limitations of the Research --- p.42
Research Design --- p.42
Data Collection --- p.43
Data Analysis --- p.44
Chapter IV. --- RESEARCH FINDINGS AND DATA ANALYSIS --- p.48
Response Rate --- p.48
Outcome of Self-Administered Questionnaire Survey --- p.48
Data Analysis --- p.49
Editing --- p.49
Coding --- p.50
RESEARCH FINDINGS --- p.50
Demographic Information of 200 Successful Respondents --- p.50
Respondents' Opinions of HMV --- p.53
Respondents' Usage Patterns of Classical CDs --- p.55
Brand Name of the Record Company --- p.55
Price --- p.60
Selection Criteria in Buying Classical CDs --- p.61
places for Buying Classical CDs --- p.72
Reasons for Buying Classical CDs --- p.74
Opinions of Sony's Classical CDs --- p.77
Preferred Promotional Methods --- p.81
Information Channels in Receiving Information about Classical CDs --- p.84
Maximum Price Willing to Pay --- p.88
Preferred Tangible Changes or Improvements --- p.89
Conclusion --- p.91
Competitive Profile --- p.91
Market Profile --- p.92
Customer Profile --- p.93
Product Profile --- p.94
Company Profile --- p.95
Chapter V. --- "MARKETING PLAN FOR SONY'S CLASSICAL DIVISION, 1997-1998" --- p.97
Target Markets --- p.97
Marketing Objectives --- p.98
Product Objectives --- p.98
Pricing Objectives --- p.99
Communication Objectives --- p.100
Distribution Objectives --- p.105
Monitoring System --- p.107
Conclusion --- p.108
APPENDIX --- p.110
BIBLIOGRAPHY --- p.133
Kielman, Adam Joseph. "Zou Qilai!: Musical Subjectivity, Mobility, and Sonic Infrastructures in Postsocialist China." Thesis, 2016. https://doi.org/10.7916/D8TT4RGN.
Full textGroenewald, Louise. "Legal analysis of fair dealing relating to music works in the digital environment." Diss., 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/5742.
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Maseko, Mandla Selby. "An impact analysis of provincial music hubs." Thesis, 2017. https://hdl.handle.net/10539/24762.
Full textAmerican film producer, Jason Berman reminds us that music is something the rest of the world wants to listen to; our job is to make sure they pay for it (Matzukis, 2013). When a piece of music is written, a legal right to it comes alive and is vested in the songwriter (author), but if that piece of music is later recorded, a totally different copyright vested in the record company comes alive (Matzukis, 2013). Unfortunately, it appears that the majority of local music role players, particularly composers, producers and performers, are not sufficiently equipped with legal knowledge and common understanding of the music trade’s secrets, its ecosystem or the music industry value chain. The lack of knowledge and exposure is attributed to historically manifested control of the music markets by record companies owned by foreign multinational conglomerates. As a result, a large number of famous and popular local musicians have died penniless. This scenario is painted vividly in an online article titled “Why do our artists die poor?”, which cites Brenda Fassie and Simon Mahlathini Nkabinde as examples of artists who died poor because of bad decisions they made in their career, despite their fame and wealth of music compositions. (www.you.co.za/entertainment/why-do-artists-die-poor/#) In South Africa, the major constraints on the launching of a musical career are access to trade knowledge and the means of production, such as recording facilities (Jordan, 2009).The Southern African Music Rights Organization’s empirical research shows that international music still dominates the South African music market, with 74% of music sold and played on broadcasting and public platforms (Samro, Notes, November 2014, p 13). As a result, the majority of local independent music composers, producers and performers are forced to share the remaining 26% of the music market. This situation worsens when widening the scope to include music role players who are located outside of urbanised provinces such as Gauteng and Western Cape, because most of them lack access to adequate and professional recording studios; lack basic knowledge on ownership of compositions and sound recordings rights; lack the skill to interpret the copyright laws; lack understanding of contractual issues between the artist and record company; lack understanding of the exportation trade; lack the means to submit their audiovisual works for airplay and lack adequate resources to build their brands for competitiveness. Since 2006 the South African music industry has seen an increase in government expenditure on and investment in musical institutions, at national and provincial levels, which are defined in this study as “music hubs”. In 2006, the Eastern Cape Audio Visual Centre (ECAVC) was established in East London (Eastern Cape Province); in 2009/2010, the KZN Music House was established in Durban (KwaZulu-Natal) and in 2008, the Downtown Music Hub was established in Johannesburg (Gauteng Province). The rationale to establish these music hubs is to ease access to the means of production for a large number of local music composers, producers and performers. The purpose of this impact analysis study is evaluate to what extent these music hubs are fulfilling their redress and transformation policy mandate to be beacons of hope for the local music industry. The theoretical grounds of this research study are premised on the concepts of transformation to create access for previously marginalized groups and black economic empowerment for local music role players. This research will unpack how these music hubs, in South Africa, can be used as tools for redress and to transform the music industry into an equitable market for all role players. Although government, at national and provincial level, shows commitment to establishing musical institutions that aim to combat the challenges facing the local music role players as outlined above, it is regrettable that the two music hubs (case studies) in the respective provinces are battling to position themselves as provincial music industry center pieces that create a competitive provincial music ecosystem and network to connect and empower local music industry role players. In 2009, the former minister of arts and culture, Pallo Jordan, in his speech at the launch of the Downtown Music Hub, indicated that the purpose of establishing the music hubs was to lower the barrier by making recording facilities, music manufacturing plants, music distribution channels and music stores more accessible to the most qualifying music role players (Jordan, 2009). This means that if these music hubs are understood as the music development trajectory in South Africa and well implemented, they have the potential to help local music industry role players become more competitive and perform on global music market platforms.
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Jackson, Melveen Beth. "Indian South African popular music, the broadcast media, and the record industry, 1920-1983." Thesis, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/10413/8883.
Full textThesis (Ph.D.)-University of Natal, Durban, 1999.
Andrade, Ricardo Miguel Bernardes. "Ar de Rock: o boom do rock em Portugal na primeira metade da década de 80." Doctoral thesis, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10362/123095.
Full textThis dissertation addresses the various musical, editorial and promotional processes that characterized the so-called “boom of Portuguese rock” of the early 1980s, an expression that is commonly used to designate the first moment of major commercial success of rock music composed, recorded and published in Portugal. I intended to understand the changes that shaped the development of rock music sung in Portuguese at the turn of the 1970s to the 1980s, considering the impact of the record, live music and media industries (press, radio and television) in this process. During the 1960s and 1970s, the recording of original repertoire within the pop-rock universe in Portugal was scarce, and it was often seen by several musicians and publishers as merely serving a promotional function. This limited possibility of recording hindered the live performance of original repertoire, the presentation of covers of international hits within dance contexts being more recurrent. This scenario contrasted with the growing popularity, especially in the Anglo-American universe, of the rock concert as a preferred presentation model and of record making as the main purpose of a group’s activity. These constituted two of the aspects that several musicians in Portugal sought to emulate, despite various limitations. In the late 1970s, changes in record publishing teams, the emergence of new radio programs exclusively dedicated to pop-rock music and a new “specialized” press contributed to the first major moment of commercial success of records by Portuguese rock groups, recorded in Portugal and sung in Portuguese. The release, in 1980, of the songs Chico Fininho, by Rui Veloso & the Banda Sonora, and Cavalos de Corrida, by UHF, were inaugural milestones of this success. The emerging focus of record companies on publishing and promoting this repertoire motivated the appearance of new producers and sound technicians, live sound companies and artists'agencies, as well as the reconfiguration of the characteristics of various groups that sought to align themselves with the phenomenon, resorting more and more to the Portuguese language in their lyrics, an aspect often overlooked until this moment within the scope of rock practices. This reconfiguration took place at a time when the proliferation of records and competitions dedicated to “Portuguese rock”, often organized by agents linked to the various industries, reinforced the expectations of new groups, several of which were founded on the growing possibility of getting signed by record companies. In this sense, I analyzed the articulation between the various industries linked to musical practice in this period, illustrating the role of their agents not only as intermediaries between rock groups and audiences, but also as active participants in the configuration of the musical activity of these groups and their repertoire. I also examine the contexts and values that shaped the characteristics of the “boom”, articulating the phenomenon with the various social and political transformations that occurred in this period.
Scully, Michael F. "American folk music revivalism, 1965-2005." Thesis, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/3522.
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