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What is a great read you'd recommend on understanding the relation between capital and the music industry? Long or short, what gave you an insight you didn't have before?
Only just started reading it, but watched a lot of interviews about it.
Goes very specifically into issues related to how Spotify and the music industry (the giant record companies) fuck over musicians amongst other things.
And also highlights neat alternatives that are emerging.
@benx this book is great! also cory doctorow boosted our kickstarter 
After posting my comment, I just realised that Cory is probably the reason I started following your account to begin with. lol 
Oh also the documentary Dig! (from 2004) also comes to mind - as a piece of media I have watched that somewhat tackled issues dealing with major record labels.
Has been a while since I've watched it though. I reckon I'd probably be a lot more critical of the "Sigma Male"-like musicians featured in the film on rewatching it.
@mirlo I wouldn't exactly say "understanding", but How Music Works by David Byrne has a chapter on where all the money goes with regards to recorded music, and it is so maddeningly bureaucratic and mean. Really solidified my hate of the "industry".
@JimTheSG Should revisit that book, it's been a minute! 
byrne
@mirlo Robin James: "Resilience & Melancholy: Pop Music, Feminism, Neoliberalism " - Focus on how music industry exploits #Therapy, #Feminism & #Diversity in #neoliberalism and how #pop music adds to the myth's of Neoliberalism ("you can make it, become resiliant, optimize yourself!") (https://www.bookzilla.de/shop/article/27157105/robin_james_resilience_melancholy.html)
@mirlo “Unmarketable” by Anne Elizabeth Moore, “Can Music Make You Sick?” by George Musgrave and Sally-Anne Gross, “Rocknomics” by Alan Krueger and “The Gift” by Lewis Hyde all spring to mind for different reasons, but they all highlight ways in which it often doesn’t work (or the two things sit uncomfortably) and the cost to people involved.
@mirlo For me it's the books which explain the relationship between copyright cartels and financialisation.
Boldrin/Levine, "Against Intellectual Monopoly"
https://openlibrary.org/works/OL5812186W/Against_Intellectual_Monopoly
Lessig, "Free Culture"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Culture_(book)
Goldstein, "Copyright's highway"
https://openlibrary.org/works/OL807949W/Copyright%27s_highway?edition=key%3A/books/OL3673889M
@mirlo It's not really about the music industry, but considering that much of Spotify's (and other streamers') real business is selling user data, Shoshana Zuboff's The Age of Surveillance Capitalism seems relevant.