Description: With just four record companies controlling nearly 80 per cent of the world market in popular music, issues of globalization are evidently significant to our understanding of how and why popular music is made and distributed. The essays in this volume examine the structure and strategies of the transnational music industry, as well as local experience of global music and its dissemination through migration and interested communities.
Review Quotes: 'Global Repertoires [is] not only interesting for the information and analysis [it] provides, [it is] as all books presenting research in progress are, stimulating because of the questions [it] brings to the reader's mind.' The World of Music