The Music Industry & the “Perfect Storm

Instructions

The Music Industry & the “Perfect Storm”: The music recording and radio industries have faced important challenges surrounding the content of music recorded and distributed to listeners. According to Frontline’s “The Way the Music Died”, various components of the music industry came together a decade ago to create “The Perfect Storm”. Research your assigned topic on the PBS web site (radio consolidation) and describe how it influenced the industry. How do these issues influence the music we listen to and has anything changed this “Perfect Storm”? Specifically address what challenges are now present related to music streaming services. [Approx. 3 pages, double spaced; upload Word document in Isidore under “Assignments”; due 10/01/15 by 9:00 am.]

The web link for this assignment is the following:

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/music/perfect/

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Ideal APA format should look like this for the interviews:

It is essential that you identify which interviewees you are discussing

in your paper; that can be accomplished by using the following citation

style within the text of your paper. See the following examples.

Citation:

Danny Goldberg suggested that…………. (“PBS Frontline”, 2004).

David Gottlieb suggested that……………..(“PBS Frontline”, 2004).

Reference:

PBS Frontline: The Industry’s “Perfect Storm”. (2004). Retrieved January 11, 2015, from http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/wbr /frontline/shows/music/perfect.

Ideal APA format should look like this for the video documentary (watched in class):

Citation:

Danny Goldberg suggested that…………. (Kirk, 2004).

Reference for PBS Video Documentary:

Kirk, M. (2004). Frontline: The Way the Music Died [Television Series]. New York: WGBH.