Music industry

Ermias Asghedom Ermias Asghedom is a successful American rapper and entrepreneur that goes by the name of Nipsey Hussle. “Entrepreneurship is having the capacity and willingness to develop, organize and manage a business venture along with any of its risks in order to make a profit.” (Business Dictionary) Born and raised near the intersection of Crenshaw and Slauson in South Los Angeles, Nipsey Hussle grew up around drug dealers, drug addicts, and criminals. Eventually to join the Rollin 60’s…

“Over time, grit is what separates fruitful lives from aimlessness.” This is what John Ortberg had to say about grit and the effect it has on people and the world. When giving the TED Talk, “The Key to Success? Grit”, Angela Lee Duckworth shared something similar, “...One characteristic emerged as a significant predictor of success. It wasn't social intelligence, it wasn't good looks, physical health, and it wasn't IQ: It was grit.” Duckworth’s insightful words showed me that grit is more…

Unlike most aspects of the music industry, ticketing has remained largely untouched by the hands of time - save for digitalization. Ticket digitalization has streamlined the process of buying tickets significantly. However, with increasing digitalization comes greater ticket reselling through third-party platforms. These platforms make it easy to sell show tickets at drastic price increases.Tickets ending up on secondary markets is often a huge disadvantage to both artists and fans. To…

Ridley-AVID 1A 30 November 2016 Music & Money How do music artists increase their revenue? There are many ways music can bring money in. There are a few strings attached depending on what road you take. Some ways could possibly bring in more money than others. Music artists get money from getting record deals. That record label takes a small percentage of your sales. When signing to record deal you are in a contract in which you agree to put out so many studio albums. Music artists get money…

levels of execution. Sugarman utilizes numerous CEO to help in planning new methodologies. Supran, who was an accomplished individual in the field, was given an errand to guarantee that the organization has new approach in order to make leader in industry…

Internet piracy is a controversial issue when it comes to whether or not it affects the entertainment industries since the start of twenty-first century. The scholarly article, written by Koster, called “Fighting Internet Piracy: The French Experience With The Hadopi Law”, is about internet piracy cause a decrease the revenue in music industry and the French decided to create a law in order to help music industry’s revenue from decline any further. The law is called Hadopi and its objectives…

p2p software, they are given many options to choose from and download straight to their computer. Although file sharing is convenient and a lot of the times cost-free, many major concerns arise such as piracy and the downfall of the music industry. The music industry has faced piracy prior to the age of the Internet by individuals selling illegal CD’s and DVD’s. It has now evolved to a much larger…

as the misrepresentation of different cultural groups, has been a hotly debated topic in the new media. But did you know that cultural appropriation in America’s music industry has been going on since the 1930s, during the era of Paul Whiteman, a popular Jazz artist? Strangely enough, some of his music was appropriated from black music artists. This act of “theft” has brought about many controversies throughout the years. But more importantly, it has brought about even more problems associated…

The new technology allows music to be distributed everywhere in the world. Music accompanied people when they listen to music on the radio, listen to music through their personal devices when they workout or having a trip to their destination. Music conveys ideas and concepts that the artists hope their audiences to listen. Audiences receive the messages and impressions depend on their personal depiction of their music experience, which in turn, some music allows audiences to relief their…

Before taking music 111, I only know little about music with few preconceptions. First preconceived idea which I hold was players who can play by ear are naturally genius or just a special gift. However, from the lecture, “Oral Tradition” and Lilliestam’s article I got the idea how the players can play by ear. In his article, "On Playing By Ear", Lars Lilliestam compared music to spoken language. He described as if we learn a variety of phrases, we can use the language in certain situation. Same…