Freedom, Music and the RIAA: How the Recording Industry Association of America Shapes Culture by De-politicizing Music

Since the development of widespread sound recording and distribution, the music industry has become increasingly consolidated among fewer companies. Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno described how the commodifying forces of the music industry lead to a predictable formulaic music that lacks any crit...

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Main Author: Arditi, David Michael
Other Authors: Political Science
Format: Others
Published: Virginia Tech 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10919/33760
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-06262007-184355/