Owning the Masters provides the first in-depth history of sound recording copyright. It is this
form of intellectual property that underpins the workings of the recording industry. Rather …

Over the past several decades, video games have gone from single-purpose games to multi-
faceted platforms. This article is a case study that develops 'unending consumption'to …

How is a media industry remade when faced by the rapid take-up of a technology it does not
control? This book follows what happened inside major record companies–dominant firms in …

Popular music policy is political. Not in the (largely meaningless) sense that 'everything is
political', but rather in the sense that popular music policy involves the allocation of prized …

Amidst the advent of digital technologies and increasing Internet use, there have been
fundamental changes in how (popular) music is produced, distributed, licensed, and …

This chapter engages with scholarly calls for greater plurality: music industries. Talk of a
single music industry is seen by critics, at best, as a convenient fiction and at worst …

This chapter considers the often-overlooked longstanding connections between horror and
television, before reading the genre's graphic shift as emblematic of the new/current golden …