The Music Industries From Conception to Consumption

The music industry is undergoing immense change. This book argues that the transformations occurring across the various music industries - recording, live performance, publishing - can be characterized as much by continuity as by change, raising complex questions about the value of music commodities.

Michael L. Jones is Course Director for the MA Music Industry Studies at the Institute of Popular Music, University of Liverpool, UK, and was previously Course Director for the first MBA in Music Industries. His publications are concerned with aspects of the industrialisation of popular music; they include Learning to Crawl: The Rise of Music Business Education (2000), The Music Industry as a Workplace(2003), Words on Music: Songwriting as Work (2003), From Conception to Consumption: The Missing Managerial Link (2008) and The UK Music Economy (2010). He remains a songwriter after enjoying success in the 1980s and 1990s with the band Latin Quarter, which reunited in 2011 with the album Ocean Head. He also debuted his stage show Where Light Falls-Songs about Joni Mitchell with his partner Rosanna Brown in the same year.