Explain one unintended consequence of the rise of digital music. What problem(s) did this create in the music industry?
After reading Prior’s article “Beyond Napster” and Heap’s commentary “Blockchain Could Help Musicians Make Money Again,” please do the following:
Identify and briefly explain one way the digitization of music has changed the creation, distribution or consumption of music.
Explain one unintended consequence of the rise of digital music. What problem(s) did this create in the music industry?
Do you think Heap’s proposed solution to music ownership could work? Why or why not?
Relate some of the history of digital music to how your music consumption changed over the past ten years.
Share one example of some of the first digital music you knew about.
Use two quotes from any of your resources to support or explain your points. Make sure to provide in-text citations for both quotes in MLA format.
Provide references for all sources in MLA format.
Bartlett, Jaimie. “Imogen Heap: Savior of the Music Industry?” The Guardian 6 Sept 2015.
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/sep/06/imogen-heap-saviour-of-music-industry
Demers, J 2015, ‘Music, copies and essences’, in The sage handbook of popular music, SAGE Publications Ltd, 55 City Road, London, pp. 584-597, viewed 13 October 2020, doi: 10.4135/9781473910362.n33.
http://sk.sagepub.com.ezproxy.umgc.edu/reference/the-sage-handbook-of-popular-music/i3857.xml
Morris, Jeremy Wade. Selling Digital Music, Formatting Culture. University of California Press, 2015.
http://ezproxy.umgc.edu/login?url=https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=nlebk&AN=1028682&site=eds-live&scope=site&profile=edsebook
Peirson-Hagger, Ellen. “How a new campaign aims to fix a broken music industry.” New Statesman, February 11, 2021.
