Monopoly In The Music Industry

The music industry is made up largely of private patronage, with the high characteristics of corporate professionals. Typically, the music industry is broken into two parts; the heroes, and the villains, the record companies are essentially seen as the villains, as many publics agree with Simon Frith’s opinion of the typical music business when it was stated “production to formulas, which limited individual creativity market choice rather than artistic judgments. Creating a culture of predictable market tastes and indulgent superstars, of slick radio shows and standardized sounds.” (REFERENCE NEEDED!)

Due to the mass culture of commercial music there is an advanced monopoly where all mass culture is identical within mass production, creating