music industry
collocation in Englishmeaningsofmusicandindustry
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music
noun[U]
uk/ˈmjuː.zɪk/us/ˈmjuː.zɪk/
a pattern of sounds made by musical instruments, voices, or computers, or a combination of these, intended to give pleasure to people listening ...
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industry
noun
uk/ˈɪn.də.stri/us/ˈɪn.də.stri/
the companies and activities involved in the process of producing goods for sale, especially in a factory or ...
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(Definition ofmusicandindustryfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofmusic industry
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This role became crucial when themusicindustryshifted from a sheet-music-centred to a recordcentred orientation.
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This seems unlikely when one considers the role that the popularmusicindustryplays in contemporary youth culture.
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Now, the drama of the change is such that consumers who download music have been characterised as enemies of themusicindustry.
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Part of the answer is that some artists misperceive their own position in themusicindustry.
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Unsurprisingly, themusicindustrywas not directly involved in the policy making, neither funding programmes nor organisations that served a public good.
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Many of these bands were put together largely on the initiative of themusicindustry.
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A basic knowledge of capitalism helps appreciate that themusicindustryis replete with the exploitation of musicians.
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However, our point is not simply to name the guilty parties, but to show how seductive the notion of a singlemusicindustryis.
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The commercial processes of themusicindustryrequire it to create audiences and markets, a process itself one of distribution.
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In part, the incentives for getting so deeply involved in the calypsomusicindustryare governmental.
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As a result, held up against historical realities, his analysis of the dynamics and output of themusicindustryis woefully reductive.
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Of course one would reasonably expect musicians, music teachers and themusicindustryto extol the educational advantages of learning and playing music.
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Our argument is that the term 'themusicindustry' has never properly accounted for the complexity and changing nature of the real world.
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When referring to the industrial processes surrounding music production, the most commonly utilised terms by such organisations are 'themusicindustry' and 'the music business'.
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That is, their recordings hold value precisely because they are unauthorized, unique, and do not carry a stamp of approval by themusicindustry.
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At the same time, it is the area least colonised by themusicindustry, in which a space exists for both individual and collective freedom.
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Within the calypso competitionmusicindustry, however, the category of 'the people' is defined by its distance from economic, political and class privilege.
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One might argue that within a fully commercialmusicindustry'the people' are conceived as consumers and their desires are gleaned from consumption patterns.
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But of course themusicindustrytoo provided a well-honed model and a powerful set of constraints for its definition and diffusion.
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But with the institutionalisation of vallenato in themusicindustryand in festivals, the roles of singer and accordion player were divided between two musicians.
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