Contents:
1.0 Introduction: 2
2.0 Music Industry: 2 2.1 Music Industry Value Chain 4 2.11 Beginning: 4 2.12 Production: 5 2.13 Circulation: 5 2.14 Distribution: 5 2.15 Consumption: 6
3.0 Technology Globalization impact on Music Industry: 6
4.0 Trade Globalization impact on Music Industry: 8
5.0 Conclusion: 9
6.0 Reference: 11
7.0 Appendix: 12 Appendix 1: The Core Cultural Industries 12 Appendix 2: Music Industry Value Chain 13 Appendix 3: Traditional music value chain 14
1.0 Introduction:
Recently globalization is commonly referred to close global relationships of economic, cultural and polity activities (Beck, 1999). The sense of economic and cultural globalization has been growing quickly at present. The objective of globalization is to promote economic growth between developing countries and developed counties through specialization. Generally, globalization can be described as economic globalization: deliver good and service across the world through reduce trade barriers. More importantly, cultural as a main sector of globalization, and become an industry. To some degrees, globalization promotes cultural industry change. While, most of are positive impacts. However, critics of globalization stated that the costs of globalization should be considered, and globalization promotes cultural industry develop may cause national internal cultural conflict. The aim of this report will simply analysis music industry value chain, and then discuss the impact of globalization on UK music industry. .
2.0 Music Industry:
In order to know how globalization affects on music industry, the first thing should be understand is what music industry is.
It is difficult to give a definition on cultural industry. Williams give a definition on cultural and describe that “whole way of life of a distinct people or other social group” (Williams, 1981). While,