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Denny Tedesco, Producer/Director. The Wrecking Crew

2008; Volume: 8; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.25101/8.11

1559-7334

Dave Tough,

Law, logistics, and international trade

The introduction to The Global Music Industry: Three Perspectives points out that many of the books having to do with music on a global scale are "academic books that discuss the relationship between music and politics."Few titles approach the music industry from a world perspective, and only a handful attempt to parse out the diffi cult relationships that exist between the cultural and political issues in non-Western music and the business of music in those cultures.The challenge, it seems, is to write a book on the global music industry that deals with the micro and the macro; the political, cultural, and geographic; the nuts and bolts of how business is done in every corner of the "known universe" and the vagaries of doing business the way it's done outside the mainstream "Western" way.It is a daunting task, but luckily not so intimidating that no one is willing to try; two books were released in 2007 that made the attempt.The Global Music Industry: Three Perspectives tries to tackle the whole world and cover the entire global industry (with the exception of Australia…more on that later).In my estimation, it falls short, and one easy answer to why is because the task is so daunting.The other main reason, I believe, is the lack of a central unifying thesis.The Global Music Industry is marked by good intentions, good information, but unfortunately a lack of consistent organization or focus.This book is represented as collaboration, though one question I had in mind right from page one was, "who wrote what?"With the exception of chapter seven, "The Music Business of Asia" written by Naoki Sekine, it isn't clear who is giving us his perspective.Indeed, with the subtitle Three Perspectives, I was expecting three different voices offering insights from three different viewpoints.After a brief introduction (with a few troubling editorial issues 1 ), the