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dc.contributor.authorArditi, David
dc.date.accessioned2017-11-01T18:39:52Z
dc.date.available2017-11-01T18:39:52Z
dc.date.issued2014-04-04
dc.identifier.citationPublished in the Journal of Popular Music Studies 26(4): 503–520, 2014en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10106/27051
dc.description.abstractMusic production and reproduction has always been effected by the implementation and adaptation of new technologies. Digital technology works to displace labor in the music industry in two parallel ways. (1) It displaces labor in the manufacture, distribution, and retail of the physical music commodity through transmediation. (2) It reduces the labor required by musicians in the production process. This paper focuses on the latter form of musician labor by looking closely at the effect that digital audio workstations and drum machines have on studio record production. I argue that while technologies are developed to solve practical problems for musicians, the recording industry adopts the same technology to increase profit by eliminating labor.en_US
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherWiley Periodicals, Inc.en_US
dc.subjectDigital technology -- music industry -- effectsen_US
dc.subjectMusic industry -- digital technologies -- laboren_US
dc.subjectMusic production -- digital technologies -- economic impacten_US
dc.titleDigital Downsizing: The Effects of Digital Music Production on Laboren_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
dc.description.versionPost-printen_US
dc.publisher.departmentDepartment of Sociology & Anthropology, The University of Texas at Arlingtonen_US
dc.identifier.externalLinkDescriptionThe publisher's version of record is available from the article DOIen_US
dc.identifier.doiDOI: 10.1111/jpms.12095


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