Suits Changing Music

Filed in archive Commentary , Industry on January 16, 2007

Music has fundamentally changed in many ways. Here is one. polar Levine writes "Suiting Up The Music: The Industry's Reframing Of Music's Role In Society" He covers how the corporatization of music has moved it away from the realm of art and creativity. It's come to resemble competitive sports and assembly-line piecework.

Polar writes:

"It's not illegal downloading that will cause the fall of the music industry as we know it; it's the industry's enslavement to inside-the-box thinking. The industry is aping America's Big Three auto companies' descent into oblivion for the same reasons -- the inclination to invest in lawsuits and lobbyists instead of looking toward the future and investing in creativity."