During the last thirty years Eastern Europe has been a place of radical political, economic, and social transformation, and these changes have affected the cultural industries of its countries. This volume consists of twelve chapters by leading international researchers. Stories are documented of various organisations that once dominated the ‘communist music industries’ ― such as state-owned record companies, music festivals, and collecting societies. The strategies employed by artists and industries to join international music markets after the fall of communism are explained and evaluated. Political and economic transformations that coincided with the advent of digitalisation and the Internet intensified the changes. All these issues posed challenges both to record labels and artists who, after adjusting to the rules of the free-market economy, were faced with the falling record sales of records caused by the advent of new communication technologies. This book examines how these processes have all affected the music scene, industries, and markets in various Eastern European countries.
Author(s): Patryk Galuszka
Series: Routledge Russian and East European Music and Culture
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2021
Language: English
Pages: 214
City: London
Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
List of figure and tables
Notes on contributors
Acknowledgements
PART I: Introduction
1. Contextualising research on the Eastern European music industries
2. Creating a market economy in Eastern Europe: Economic reform as the central theme in the transition
PART II: Russia
3. Piracy as an institutionalised social practice in Soviet and
post-Soviet Russia
4. ‘We have no music industry!’ Exploring the context of
post-Soviet music making through the lens of contemporary
Swedo-Russian collaborations
PART III: Central Europe
5. Socialist riches to capitalist rags: The disintegration of the GDR music industry during German reunification
6. Collective management of copyright during communism and transition – A case study of the Society of Authors ZAiKS
7. The National Festival of Polish Song in Opole: The transformation of legal, economic, and political
circumstances over fifty years of the Polish music industry
8. Pohoda: the importance of Slovakia’s greatest festival
9. Managing the Eastern European position in the digital era: music industry showcase events and popular music export in Hungary
PART IV: Southeast Europe
10. The Romanian music scene: The social economy of pop music in the post-socialist period
11. Come visit (our past) again: How municipalities encourage retro rock culture on the Bulgarian music scene
12. The Yugoslav and post-Yugoslav alternative rock canon presented in the music press
Index
