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Is piracy ‘good’ or ‘bad’? – guest post by Steven Brown

Steven Brown is a Doctoral Research Student at Glasgow Caledonian University, Scotland. His mixed-methods research into music piracy has appeared in diverse publications including The Psychologist, Musicae Scientae, and Convergence. In his guest post he reflects his long experience in the psychology in music piracy research to question if piracy is economically ‘bad’ or ‘good’.…

Jul 14, 20144 min read

A Brief History of China’s Music Industry – Part 4: The Contemporary Digital Music Industry in China

The music industry of China is an unknown continent from a Western music business research perspective. Therefore it is very meritorious that John Fangjun Li, a lecturer and PhD candidate (2008-2012) at Macquarie University, provides one of the first overviews of the history of China’s music industry for an international readership. In a series of…

Dec 30, 20126 min read

A Brief History of China’s Music Industry – Part 3: The Recorded Music Industry in China From the 1950s to the Early 2000s

Dec 29, 20125 min read

A Brief History of China’s Music Industry – Part 2: The Recorded Music Industry in China From the Early 1900s to the Late 1940s

Dec 28, 20125 min read

A Brief History of China’s Music Industry – Part 1: Introduction

Dec 27, 20125 min read

The Early Recording Industry in the Czech Lands – Part 4

Guest post by Daniel Matoušek Until now, there has not been much literature on the recording industry in the former Czechoslovakia. Particularly the history after the 1950s is not mapped at all yet. However, there are two books about the early music industry in the Czech lands that stand out in scope and in depth…

Mar 7, 20128 min read

The Early Recording Industry in the Czech Lands – Part 3

Feb 22, 201212 min read

The Early Recording Industry in the Czech Lands – Part 2

Jan 31, 20126 min read

The Early Recording Industry in the Czech Lands – Part 1

Jan 9, 20127 min read