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Seven Developments in Recorded Music in the 2010s (and the Songs that Defined them)

Zach Fuller

6 Nov 2019

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cultural insight

Drake

Decade retrospectives are almost doomed to fail. Assess the 60s in 1969 and you would have likely overweighed the influence of Grand Funk Railroad compared to The Velvet Underground. When it comes to the...

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The Future of Music: A Vision of Post-Format

Mark Mulligan

18 Sep 2019

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artists

Edison

Formats have shaped and dictated the evolution of recorded music. The constraints that formats set have, in turn, become the creative frameworks within which music has operated. Now, in the internet era,...

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Music Publishing and the Catalogue Question

Zach Fuller

29 Jul 2019

music catalogue

music publishing

recorded music

“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." Somewhere in a field back in the summer of 2008, Rage Against the Machine used this line as the bridge in their...

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Music Tech and Unintended Consequences

Zach Fuller

23 Jan 2019

Innovation

Media

Recent discussions over how music will look in the app economy, with services such as TikTok effectively ‘meme-ing’ the concept of music and emphasising its social context, has led me to reflect on...

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