http://blog.commarts.wisc.edu/2010/07/23/summer-music-festivals-just-20000-people-standing-in-a-field-or-a-life-raft-for-the-music-industry/ Responses to Media and Culture Fri, 12 Feb 2016 19:35:04 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.7.5 http://blog.commarts.wisc.edu/2010/07/23/summer-music-festivals-just-20000-people-standing-in-a-field-or-a-life-raft-for-the-music-industry/comment-page-1/#comment-23546 Fri, 30 Jul 2010 20:22:30 +0000 http://blog.commarts.wisc.edu/?p=5255#comment-23546 I like this because it writes against the tendency to construct the ‘recording’ or ‘music’ industry as a monlith and then proclaim that all or part of the entity is in trouble. As the narrative propagated by observers like Bob Lefsetz goes, first it was recording and now it is concerts. Although observers are most often careful to note that they are limiting their remarks to the so-called majors and entities like Livenation, these critiques might still do well to focus on all of the activity to which you allude. If there was more analysis of this, it might be possible to begin to identify the fragmented new industry structures that are emerging out of the ashes of the rock era and the major label and concert conglomerate systems.

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