tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4783043358010355015Fri, 25 Oct 2024 10:24:19 +0000news rereadlinksorganizational noterandom thoughtsbasic concepts; baumol's cost diseasepapershttp://newmusiceconomics.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (moon_strucked)Blogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4783043358010355015.post-8111382334480071010Fri, 04 Dec 2009 14:36:00 +00002009-12-04T18:05:37.192+03:00news rereadI was sorting out some information for a longer, and somewhat more thoughtful, post when I found this: apparently The Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada wants all the local gymnastics clubs to pay royalties for the tunes they use for routines.The news just shocks me since I've been in my university gymnastics club for several years. And although that sort of a thing http://newmusiceconomics.blogspot.com/2009/12/music-copyright-and-gymnatsics.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (moon_strucked)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4783043358010355015.post-2228173450056050744Thu, 20 Aug 2009 15:36:00 +00002009-08-20T19:44:19.396+04:00linksGoogling for my favorite phrase "music economics" I landed to this web-page that is on the first page in the results, but I somehow overlooked it before. It appears to be a blog, called "From ABBA to Zeppelin, Led: using music to teach economics" and it tries to do... well, exactly what it's supposed to do by the title. And it seems like the site have been up for ages now! So it's kind of me, buthttp://newmusiceconomics.blogspot.com/2009/08/from-music-to-economics-with-love.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (moon_strucked)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4783043358010355015.post-3331020217388653500Tue, 11 Aug 2009 16:48:00 +00002009-08-20T16:03:34.397+04:00basic concepts; baumol's cost diseaseThis post should open a series of posts explaining "basic concepts" of economics of music as I understand them and often told in words that don't sound very "economics" but still seem understandable to me. As you can read in Wikipedia, Baumol&Bowen cost disease in the performing arts (or simply Baumol's cost disease) is an effect first described by William J. Baumol and William G. Bowen in http://newmusiceconomics.blogspot.com/2009/08/baumol-cost-disease.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (moon_strucked)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4783043358010355015.post-4598872646341818500Mon, 13 Jul 2009 23:02:00 +00002009-08-17T14:49:59.675+04:00news rereadLeaving the death of Michael Jackson alone (although not leaving alone this great MTV logo above!), lots of thing happened in the music industry since I’ve updated properly and thoughtfully. So I decided to sum up all of it in one post.First, of course, this blog is now indexed by Google, horray! Now to the serious news. There were several big and small news on Pirate Bay. They’ve got some http://newmusiceconomics.blogspot.com/2009/07/leaving-death-of-michael-jackson-alone.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (moon_strucked)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4783043358010355015.post-4479653406319334371Tue, 02 Jun 2009 09:31:00 +00002009-08-17T14:50:25.452+04:00organizational noteI haven't been updating lately. Not that it bothers anyone, but I still want to say I'm sorry and mention that I had loads of real-life work lately. I still have tones of plans of what to write about though. Topics include two book reviews and an easy explanation of Baumol-Bowen cost disease.http://newmusiceconomics.blogspot.com/2009/06/organizational-note.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (moon_strucked)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4783043358010355015.post-6722428208214261814Mon, 18 May 2009 10:44:00 +00002009-08-17T14:50:47.480+04:00news rereadThis news seems really amazing to me. DJ Danger Mouse is going to release a blank CD-R along with proper art work so anybody who buys it is free to find the album on the web and record it themselves. While this news is presented as a part of a battle between Danger Mouse and EMI, I think it also represents a very important concept of modern music industry. It's not the music that we buy when we http://newmusiceconomics.blogspot.com/2009/05/danger-mouse-and-his-blanc-cd-r-release.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (moon_strucked)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4783043358010355015.post-6934720743895304487Thu, 30 Apr 2009 11:02:00 +00002009-08-17T14:51:42.116+04:00news rereadFat Wreck Chords announced that they would sell their CD's for less than $10 from now on. And sometimes even under $8. Just about time!I wonder what should happen in this big mad world for all record labels to finally drop their CD prices. If they (CD's) would be a commodity, those prices would have fallen several years ago.I also wonder when somebody would start selling music on CF cards, or in http://newmusiceconomics.blogspot.com/2009/04/cd-prices-start-to-drop.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (moon_strucked)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4783043358010355015.post-6066099303769713415Wed, 29 Apr 2009 13:03:00 +00002009-08-17T14:53:05.269+04:00random thoughtsSome friends noted to me that the new Florence and the Machine EP didn't leak, yet, and it's been more than one day since the release. At the same time, say... new IAMX album leaked several weeks ago, with an official release date being May 19th.Florence and the MachineIAMXThe question is: where is the key difference between those who leak and those who don't. With all my respect and some bits ofhttp://newmusiceconomics.blogspot.com/2009/04/to-leak-or-not-to-leak.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (moon_strucked)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4783043358010355015.post-1021916325367408625Sun, 26 Apr 2009 21:16:00 +00002009-08-17T14:54:26.809+04:00news rereadpapersWhile I was making up my mind on writing this post, the news on BI Norwegian School of Management research on piracy and legal music purchases spread around the net so far, it’s even all over Cyrillic web. But I didn’t just waste that time. I google-scholared the subject, and found a) one relatively old article from two researchers of that school and b) the only paper that sites that paper from (http://newmusiceconomics.blogspot.com/2009/04/casual-pirates-vs-hard-core-pirates.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (moon_strucked)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4783043358010355015.post-384441950277142391Thu, 23 Apr 2009 14:47:00 +00002009-08-17T14:54:50.117+04:00linksnews rereadTwo free and very interesting things online. If you follow the news on music festivals and\or e-books you might already know it. But if you don't, here are the links and comments for you.The Londonist blog posted some free mp3's of Camden Crawl'09 participating bands and musicians today. I'm not sure what's inside those two archives (200+150 mb). But if you're planning on being somewhere near http://newmusiceconomics.blogspot.com/2009/04/today-legally-free-goodies.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (moon_strucked)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4783043358010355015.post-7865345038146265854Tue, 21 Apr 2009 09:39:00 +00002009-08-17T14:55:12.384+04:00news rereadrandom thoughtsAs you might now, a "Record Store Day" was celebrated 3 days ago (18 April). And if you don't know, it's just a day to support your favorite local independent record stores, and for those record stores to pay you some love and respect back, with discounts and live performances aboard.The stories about how the actual Record Store Day worked out may be found at the home site of the event, or in http://newmusiceconomics.blogspot.com/2009/04/record-store-day-russian-edition.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (moon_strucked)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4783043358010355015.post-4622198023608228578Mon, 20 Apr 2009 15:37:00 +00002009-08-17T14:56:21.577+04:00organizational noteFor me there are many reasons to think about the subject they call “music economy” or “economics of music”. The first two of them (the reasons) are very personal: I’ve always been in love with music of some kind and I do economics for living, so the blend of words “music” and “economics” seems very natural for me. But there are other, non-personal reasons for thinking about the subject.First is –http://newmusiceconomics.blogspot.com/2009/04/why-am-i-here-naive-foreword.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (moon_strucked)0