This article examines an early (1980s) phase in a two-decade effort towards ‘royalty reform’ in the US recording industry, whereby ...

American popular music discourse and pop performers' political practice frequently give prominence to questions of rights, particularly in relation to ...

In 1944, two California courts agreed with actor Olivia De Havilland’s claim that the state’s seven year limit on the ...

The devaluation of the recorded music commodity under digitalization has destabilized the recording industry. One primary record industry response is ...

This article examines the apparent paradox of the persistence of long-term employment contracts for cultural industry ‘talent’ in the context ...

This article explores the political-economic “prehistory” of the “synthespian” by tracing the emergence of the rock and roll cartoon The ...

Cultural industries’ reliance on streams of novel cultural material requires granting creative employees significant degrees of autonomy within firms. This ...

This article examines the apparent paradox of the persistence of long-term employment contracts for cultural industry ‘talent’ in the context ...