Have your research out and ready Todays aims To review the record label research To understand the types of exam questions for section B To know and understand relevant audience theories Audienceindustry power relationship ID: 433956
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What is the music industry?
Have your research out and ready.Slide2
Today’s aims:
To review the record label research
To understand the types of exam questions for section B
To know and understand relevant audience theoriesSlide3
Audience/industry power relationship
Supply and demand
Does the supply create the demand?
Or is the demand created by the supply?
Or is it an element of both?Slide4
Adorno
– Philosopher of Music 1940s
Adorno
came up with the hypodermic needle or hypodermic syringe model.
This is the theory that an intended message is given out to the audience, and the audience accepts it unquestioningly.
This is based on the audience being passive and absorbing whatever the media throws at them.Slide5
How this translates into the music world
Take The Beatles
They were blown into this huge phenomenon by their record label, publicists and the media and they became one of the most popular bands of all time.
The demand for them was created by the OTT supply.
The public came to believe that you loved The Beatles.Slide6
John Fiske – 1980s
Fiske presented the idea at this point that in fact it was the audience controlling the media.
The media and music industry began tailoring the artists and products based on the desires of the potential audience.
Supply was now being created by demand. Slide7
With the rise of drugs associated with partying, a new culture was born.
Rave
The music industry latched onto this, creating music that fit perfectly with a raver’s state of mind.Slide8
David
Gauntlett
– 2010s
Making is connecting
This is a much more modern theory born out of our ‘online’ culture.
This works with the idea of the audience as both consumers and producers of media
The idea that the audience creates the media.Slide9
One direction – Simon Cowell
This modern theory fits in terms of YouTube, Spotify
etc
– you are part of the production, marketing and distribution of music.
It has issues however with bands such as One Direction.
Audience voted through X Factor : Audience controlling media which fits.
Advertised and promoted by media in a Beatles way – similarities in images.
X Factor is advertised and pushed upon the audience
Simon Cowell – massively influential – all about gain.
Who really is in control of(to blame for)One Direction’s success? Slide10
Relation to exam
Link theories to case studies for the record labels and artists
Decide which theory fits best in terms of marketing and distribution.
Learn names and links in order to bring in when discussing the case studies in your exam.