The Music Industry

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Steve Jones in the article "Music and the Internet" suggests that popular music as well as academic articles relating to popular music were created and distributed by people who didn’t completely understand the idea of the "music industry." He ultimately suggests that today compared to the introduction of popular music, a growing number of consumers are using the Internet to attain music. The internet has drastically changed the distribution systems also creating many ethical problems that weren't found in the music industry before the internet. Because the internet started making a presence in almost every single business, it was almost no question that the internet is bringing about some changes in the music industry; a billion dollar industry. Steve Jones ultimately knew the inversion of the internet would create dominant change in the music industry; one that many popular music artists during the early years didn't think was possible. The article was written in a lot information paragraphs that gave insight to the extreme lack of strong distribution during the early times of popular music compared to modern day. Strong and insightful syntax showed the way many musicians felt that about the way their music was performed and distributed during these times, but had nothing to do about it.

The author of "Music and the Internet" Steve Jones is himself a musician and understands and identifies incredibly with music and the internet. The article itself is written with ironic and courageous words to emulate the direct distribution of the beginnings of popular music compared to the way music was issued to the public. He describes the sheet music that was sold to people and they had to most of the times performed it within the househo...

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...istribution techniques to modern was and shows the billion dollar to one dollar ratio that modern music sales have on early music sales. He believed a simple organized distribution like the internet or record company could have made the way we as modern day people look at music. He used analogies and personal stories to give the relative appeal to the early popular music to modern popular music. The article itself shows the unique talents that all kind of people during the early 1800’s had but struggled to make enough money to take care of their families. It’s fair to say that the internet is one of the best things that could happen to music.

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Music and the Internet

Steve Jones

Popular Music

Vol. 19, No. 2 (Apr., 2000), pp. 217-230

Published by: Cambridge University Press

Article Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org.lib.uh.edu/stable/853669

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