The Cultural Capital project aims to re-envision the digital music industry based on connectivity, sharing, and sustainability. @brianfauteux @astrobri @dewaard
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Happy holidays. Our site has been hacked but we'll be regrouping in the new year and will sort everything out. Lots on the horizon for 2025.
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Joni Mitchell reposted our @ConversationCA article about genAI in the Canadian music industry. Might as well cancel all my classes for the rest of the week.
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We went a little bit longer on the SOCAN and Suno lawsuit, with some notes about the larger issues at play with respect to genAI and music in Canada and what sort of solutions we'd like to see:
theconversation.com/ai-music…
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Our public infrastructure in music project is ramping up (@cult_cap) and we've thus far completed a survey with musicians in Canada. There are lots of findings to share, but one initial result is that 87% of respondents view AI in music negatively:
ca.billboard.com/business/te…
Our survey of Canadian musicians found the 87% view AI in music with apathy or animosity. We'll be sharing much more from this project as its work intensifies over the next little while:
ca.billboard.com/business/te…
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Closing this tonight. A quick look at the responses and there is so much good stuff. Lots of work to do. On the question of "exciting things happening in the music industries," I appreciate the range of: "I don't know of any" to "forming collectives to create bargaining power"
We're doing a project on public infrastructure for music in Canada and doing a final call for musicians to participate in a survey on musicmaking at this particular moment. If you'd like to do this, please email me at: [email protected]. Or pls share with others who may be!
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Popular Music Books in Process Series / Tues March 18 5pm ET / Liz Pelly, Andrew deWaard, and Brian Fauteux
"Spotify, Satellites, and C-Suites: Three Presentations on the Streaming Music Industries"
To join listerv or contact organizers for zoom link: iaspm-us.wildapricot.org/Pop…
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MUSIC IN ORBIT: SATELLITE RADIO IN THE STREAMING SPACE AGE is *officially* out today with @ucpress.
Available in a number of formats and you can now get 30% off with the promo code: UCPSAVE30
ucpress.edu/books/music-in-o…
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It's amazing to see this profile of DIY music making in a national newspaper, and to see so many artist voices represented here. Really great work by @lukeottenhof (and thanks for referencing some of our research with @Cult_Cap)
for globe and mail i talked with music workers across canada about how DIY is gonna save us all from this music industry hellscape. online now and in print tomorrow theglobeandmail.com/arts/art…
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DiMA is a lobby group for big tech companies (amazon, spotify, etc) that will make it seem like them having to pay into canadian content development is a user problem and will make life more expensive, instead of simply supporting the cultural industries in countries they operate
A reckless decision by the government that is going to make life more unaffordable for you. It’s time to take action and let them know they should #ScrapTheStreamingTax
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DERIVATIVE MEDIA is out today with @ucpress ! It's the first in-depth book on how Wall Street is harming film, television, and popular music. It's available in print or for free as an ebook. Please share!
ucpress.edu/books/derivative…
bookshop.org/p/books/derivat…
#pubday
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About a year ago, we wrote about why this is a good move and part of a longer history of support for Canadian music industries.
theconversation.com/junos-20…
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As per the Online Streaming Act, major streaming companies, those with profits over $25 million, will be paying into Canadian content development. For audio, this is broken down as follows:
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We're very happy to have received a @SSHRC_CRSH Insight Grant to keep the @Cult_Cap research going. Over the new few years, we'll be working on "CanCon and its Digital Discontents: A Public Infrastructure Model for Canadian Music." Which means more tweeting about Big Wreck.
Thank you!
The published work from the @Cult_Cap project was essential to my research. If you're interested in getting into the weeds about how the industry operates and thrives on inequality, I can't recommend their writing enough.
cultcap.org/
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"Entering a DIY scene means learning how to engage with its people and spaces in a respectful way, which takes time and effort."
In "Exit Music," @therewasnosound analyzes ongoing gentrification in the DIY music scene. Read more of his thoughts below 🧵
maisonneuve.org/article/2023…
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Just under a month to submit to this special issue on sustainable futures in popular music. ⬇️⬇️
CFP for Special Issue of MUSICultures
Sustainable Futures in Popular Music: The Pandemic and Beyond
Revised deadline for full manuscripts: June 30, 2023
Send to: [email protected] OR [email protected]
iaspm.net/call-for-articles-…
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ICYMI: We (@Cult_Cap) wrote about the role of Canadian Content regulations in the broader music industries in Canada; as well on #BillC11 and the potential for regulation and public funding for music to weather the ill effects of consolidation in media.
theconversation.com/junos-20…
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“The bigger story amidst all of this is: musicians are retaining less and less of their copyright, revenue streams, and capacity to earn a livelihood if they’re not one of the few mass marketed through the major label and tech company ecosystem.” @dewaard
newfeeling.ca/2023/02/22/hip…
Our latest @ConversationCA article on #BillC11, Canadian Content for music, and consolidation in the media industries.
We've entered the #BillC11 discourse to advocate for a more thorough consideration of the positive potential for Canadian Content regulations for Canadian music in the streaming media era.
theconversation.com/junos-20…