Posts Tagged With: music industry
Building the Pop Music Empire, Part 2 (Olivia Currin Duell)
The following is the second part in a two-part installment. The first part can be found here. Popular music artists as intertextual commodities Indeed, when fans support an artist with such ferocity, and both consume and contribute to the artist’s empire, the studio album can remain an important and lucrative…
Building The Pop Music Empire, Part 1 (Olivia Currin Duell)
The following if the first part in a two-part installment. Author Note: The following was written in 2015 and details how critical discussion of popular music is largely missing from the field of media studies. This essay discusses how popular music fits into a media studies theoretical framework, and more…