Episode Details

This lesson explores how production techniques constantly grow in power and flexibility, and how the rise and fall of recording labels underscores a rapidly changing climate for distribution and sales. New digital technologies and the Internet have had profound effects on the recording industry. The structure of the industry continues to shift in the wake of these changes, as well as the interaction of media forms, the growth of independent artists and labels, and the wave of interactive listening experiences that have joined the more conventional products the industry markets.