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The Advent of the Internet has caused wrenching headaches for the music industry, but it has also unleashed unprecedented worldwide distribution of music and unparalleled communication between fans and musicians. In Sonic Boom, musician and industry insider John Alderman details this head-on collision between commerce and progress, and shows how it will forever alter the cultural landscape.
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About the Author:
John Alderman has been part of the online revolution since the launch of HotWired, the world's first commercial Website. As the culture editor for Wired News, Alderman began covering the explosion of online music just as the MP3 phenomenon gathered steam. He has written for Wired, i-D, Details and Salon.
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The fate of music download operation Napster is in the balance, having faced a legal avalanche from the record industry giants. This, then, is a timely book on the battle for control of the music industry, explaining the development of the MP3 music format, its future and the various intellectual property issues. One of the problems of tracking such a fast-moving target is topicality, and so Alderman is still working on his manuscript. But on the basis of some sample chapters, he has a sure grasp of the issues and an accessible writing style. The battles between the cigar-chomping record company bigwigs and the t-shirted slacker software developers such as MP3.com's Michael Robertson are all covered in detail, with most of Alderman's sympathy being bestowed on the latter, mainly because of the potential for empowerment that the technology holds. He understands the giant companies' need to protect their revenues, but is deeply sceptical of their claims to be looking after the rights of their recording artists, pointing to the punitive nature of most recording contracts and the majors' dismal history of continuing to develop artists over a long career. Potentially a very thought-provoking book.
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- PublisherFourth Estate Classic House
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