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Monday 26 April 2010
The Relationship Between Fashion And Music
Nowadays music and fashion industry have grown so big that it is being owned by various conglomerates. This two fields have intimate relationship dated back over the last decades and as we proceed we shall see the differences, similarities, collaborations, and the affect of convergence on this industries.
DEREFERENCE: The difference between fashion and music is that fashion is more artistic and basically deals with more showcasing whilst music involves composing, singing and shooting the music video.
SIMILARITIES: Fashion and music share common similarities such as influencing teenagers by making them buy the CD, playing the music of their favourite musician's or wearing design from well recognised fashion industries such as; Prada and Gucci wears. however another similarities of this two field is that it influence their fans to buy a concert ticket for fashion show and to watch their favourite music artist perform.
COLLABORATION: According to difference music.com "Fashion and music live in a common place. A fashion show without music would be like a record without it’s images". Moreover, there are several creativities that have initiated ongoing collaboration between fashion and music. Nowadays musicians are using models for their music video's and this models have specific company that design the outfits that will be used for the music video.
Furthermore, due to the converging nature of this two fields, we have seen different musicians such as 50cent, Jay-Z, and lady-Gaga from hip-hop and R&B, who have particular fashion designer & has successfully launched their own clothing company.
RESOURCES:
1. www.fashion-era.com
2. expressioninspiration.blogspot.com
3. www.youtube.com
4. www.differencemusic.com
5. www.csm.arts.ac.uk
Wednesday 31 March 2010
Conglomerates In The UK Music Industry
The music business today is among the media industry that is constantly evolving.However the music industry has various content producers which has been acquired by the four major conglomerates,ultimately driven by profit.they are;
(1)Sony Music Entertainment (Japan based).Sony acquired the music industry content producers such as:Epic Records,Columbia Records,CBS Records, Bertelsmann Music Group, (BMG),J Records etc.
(2)Universal Music Group (France based)acquired Mecury Records,Geffens records,Def Jam Recordings,Universal music UK,Decca music group,Island records,Interscope Records etc.
(3)Warner Music Group (USA based)acquired Atlantic Records,Elektra Records,Asylum Records,Warner Bros Records,Reprise Records,Atco Records,Mushroom Records,Cordless Records,East West Records,Rhino Records,Roadrunner Records,Rykodisc records and Warner/Chappell Music.
(4)EMI Group (UK based)acquired Virgin Records,Liberty Records,Capitol Records,Christian Music Group,Angel Records,Innocent Record,Priority Records,Relentless Records,GMG (Get Money Gang)Entertainment.etc
Finally Conglomerates also have subdivision that helps in distributing, marketing and promoting a product in essence,encouraging the growth of business in the society.
*Resources:
www.wikipedia.com
www.google.com
Sunday 14 March 2010
Leona Lewis Rise To Fame
My article is about the rise to fame of the British pop & R&B star Leona Lewis, and what contributed immensely in archieving her "Vision".
Leona lewis was born on 3rd April in the year 1985.her father,Aurial Josiah was an Afro-caribbean youth worker & her mother,Marie lewis was a social worker of Aglo-Wesh decent.Leona started her early life in the London Borough of Islington with her whole family,and her vision is to be a musician.However her parents fulfilled her wish by sending her to a sylvia young theatre school at the age of five,and when she left school.she was very determined,courageous and focused to archieve her vision.leona thereby worked toward archieving her vision by doing all kind of odd jobs to get into a recording studio;Leona worked as a waitress at pizza hut,she worked as a receptionist for metropolitan mortages in meridian road,lower clapton,Hackney.and she also worked as a recptionist for head and short chiropodists located in stoke Newington high street.
She recorded a version of Minnie Riperton's 'Loving You' with music producer Marley J.Wills at the age of 15,subsequently she & wills were invited to United States by Sony.
*Note:Leona lewis won the lady D under-18 talent show at Hackney empire at the age of 13 and she also attented & graduated from the prestigeous BRIT school for performing Arts and Technology.
Leona Lewis has a great passion for music,her successful music career and rise to fame started at the age of 21 in the year 2006 when she beat Ray Quin to win the 2006British talent show,(the X factor).
In the following year 2007,her debut single,a soulful cover of kelly clarkson's " A Moment like this"(clarkson's own debut American idol showcase single),was the number one single in the UK at the turn of the year and " A Moment Like This" was crowned the 2006 UK christmas number-one single.
Nevertheless in 2007 Leona sighned a $9.7 million record deal in the U.S with Clive Davis's record label J Record, and she won several awards including number one in the UK with "Bleeding Love",and her Spirit album became the fastest selling debut in Britain.
on 15th March 2007,Leona performed in front of prince charles at the UK finals of the prince's trust RBS celebrate success awards at the Barbican centre in London.she was also presented the award for the "young Achiever of the year" and she sang "over the Rainbow".
In April 2008,Leona lewis album "Spirit" became the first British solo artist to go straight to number one in the U.S album chart.
Factors that contributed towards Leona Lewis Success are;
1. Help from her parents.
2. Focused and determination.
3. Courageous and hardworking.
*Important Notice; according to report,Leona Lewis lives in Hackney with her boyfriend,Lou Al-Chamaa,who is an electrician by profession.and they grew up in the same street and have known each other since leona lewis was nine years old.
REFERENCES
1. www.starplus.com
2. www.leona-lewis.net
3. www.google.co.uk
4. www..comwikipedia
5. www.biongs.com
6.www.articlealley.com
7.www.facebook.com
Leona lewis was born on 3rd April in the year 1985.her father,Aurial Josiah was an Afro-caribbean youth worker & her mother,Marie lewis was a social worker of Aglo-Wesh decent.Leona started her early life in the London Borough of Islington with her whole family,and her vision is to be a musician.However her parents fulfilled her wish by sending her to a sylvia young theatre school at the age of five,and when she left school.she was very determined,courageous and focused to archieve her vision.leona thereby worked toward archieving her vision by doing all kind of odd jobs to get into a recording studio;Leona worked as a waitress at pizza hut,she worked as a receptionist for metropolitan mortages in meridian road,lower clapton,Hackney.and she also worked as a recptionist for head and short chiropodists located in stoke Newington high street.
She recorded a version of Minnie Riperton's 'Loving You' with music producer Marley J.Wills at the age of 15,subsequently she & wills were invited to United States by Sony.
*Note:Leona lewis won the lady D under-18 talent show at Hackney empire at the age of 13 and she also attented & graduated from the prestigeous BRIT school for performing Arts and Technology.
Leona Lewis has a great passion for music,her successful music career and rise to fame started at the age of 21 in the year 2006 when she beat Ray Quin to win the 2006British talent show,(the X factor).
In the following year 2007,her debut single,a soulful cover of kelly clarkson's " A Moment like this"(clarkson's own debut American idol showcase single),was the number one single in the UK at the turn of the year and " A Moment Like This" was crowned the 2006 UK christmas number-one single.
Nevertheless in 2007 Leona sighned a $9.7 million record deal in the U.S with Clive Davis's record label J Record, and she won several awards including number one in the UK with "Bleeding Love",and her Spirit album became the fastest selling debut in Britain.
on 15th March 2007,Leona performed in front of prince charles at the UK finals of the prince's trust RBS celebrate success awards at the Barbican centre in London.she was also presented the award for the "young Achiever of the year" and she sang "over the Rainbow".
In April 2008,Leona lewis album "Spirit" became the first British solo artist to go straight to number one in the U.S album chart.
Factors that contributed towards Leona Lewis Success are;
1. Help from her parents.
2. Focused and determination.
3. Courageous and hardworking.
*Important Notice; according to report,Leona Lewis lives in Hackney with her boyfriend,Lou Al-Chamaa,who is an electrician by profession.and they grew up in the same street and have known each other since leona lewis was nine years old.
REFERENCES
1. www.starplus.com
2. www.leona-lewis.net
3. www.google.co.uk
4. www..comwikipedia
5. www.biongs.com
6.www.articlealley.com
7.www.facebook.com
Tuesday 2 March 2010
UK music Industry: Regulation & Control
The music business is largely a self-regulated industry - everyone seems to be involved in some aspect of control, from individual artists to unions and corporate giants, from publishers to licensers, from collecting agencies such as MCPS,PRS,PPL and VPL to copyright and trademark offices.each organisation in the music industry have their responsibilities.
Firstly,just as the office of communication(known as ofcom),which is an independent telecommunications regulator and competition authority for the communication industries in the UK.The UK copyright collective (also known as a copyright collecting agency or copyright collecting society) is a body created by private agreements or by copyright law that collects royalty payments from various individuals and groups for copyright holders. They may have the authority to license works and collect royalties as part of a statutory scheme or by entering into an agreement with the copyright owner to represent the owners interests when dealing with licensees and potential licensees in the UK music industry.
2. MCPS (Mechanical Copyright Protection Society)
In the UK the MCPS exists to oversee the collection and distribution of "mechanical publishing/composer royalties" generated from CD, DVD etc sales. Royalties take the form of a license fee that pays for permission to duplicate a recording. Therefore this fee is normally collected before duplication of a CD, DVD etc, although smaller labels and composers financing their own recordings and selling them can apply for a license that allows them to pay (often themselves!) retrospectively as sales income comes in.
3. PRS (Performing Rights Society)
The music copyrights generate a second lot of royalties when performed or broadcast live. In the UK the PRS exists to collect and distribute these royalties directly to composers.However the PRS For Music responsibilities is also to find venues such Wembley Arena,Royal Albert Hall,Large Provincial theatres,and broadcasters(for example BBC Radio 1),for performance. and they also samples smaller venues that host live performance.
4.VPL (Video Performance Limited)This organisation licenses the right to perform music video recordings (usually by broadcasters, clubs and pubs). Like their parent PPL they collect royalties for record companies but don’t pay royalties to music performers.
5. Songrite UK (Copyright Office)
This company is responsible for issuing copyright to songs,music and lyrics in the UK.Songrite is a leading global copyright registration service, used by both up and coming and professional songwriters who wish to claim and declare rightful ownership of their music based works. they register and secure the copyrights of new songs, music and lyrics in the UK music industry.
Note: in February 2008 the UK government launched a Green Paper on the Creative Industries, which advocates a similar ‘three strikes and you’re out’ policy, in which identified illegal downloaders are first warned, then suspended and then ultimately banned from using the internet by their ISPs. Similar initiatives are also being launched at a European level. The EU Telecommunications Package, agreed by MEPs last July, requires national regulators such as Ofcom to promote ‘cooperation’ between ISPs and parties ‘interested in the protection and promotion of lawful content’, which arguably requires such regulatory bodies to force ISPs to become regulators of consumer behaviour.
Futher Reading:
click on the link (www.bemuso.com) to view the UK collecting music royalties and the diagram and also the collection right societies in the rest of the world.
References
1. http://www.bemuso.com/musicbiz/collectionsocieties.html#collectingmusicroyalties
2. www.songrite.co.uk
3. www.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRS_for_Music
Firstly,just as the office of communication(known as ofcom),which is an independent telecommunications regulator and competition authority for the communication industries in the UK.The UK copyright collective (also known as a copyright collecting agency or copyright collecting society) is a body created by private agreements or by copyright law that collects royalty payments from various individuals and groups for copyright holders. They may have the authority to license works and collect royalties as part of a statutory scheme or by entering into an agreement with the copyright owner to represent the owners interests when dealing with licensees and potential licensees in the UK music industry.
2. MCPS (Mechanical Copyright Protection Society)
In the UK the MCPS exists to oversee the collection and distribution of "mechanical publishing/composer royalties" generated from CD, DVD etc sales. Royalties take the form of a license fee that pays for permission to duplicate a recording. Therefore this fee is normally collected before duplication of a CD, DVD etc, although smaller labels and composers financing their own recordings and selling them can apply for a license that allows them to pay (often themselves!) retrospectively as sales income comes in.
3. PRS (Performing Rights Society)
The music copyrights generate a second lot of royalties when performed or broadcast live. In the UK the PRS exists to collect and distribute these royalties directly to composers.However the PRS For Music responsibilities is also to find venues such Wembley Arena,Royal Albert Hall,Large Provincial theatres,and broadcasters(for example BBC Radio 1),for performance. and they also samples smaller venues that host live performance.
4.VPL (Video Performance Limited)This organisation licenses the right to perform music video recordings (usually by broadcasters, clubs and pubs). Like their parent PPL they collect royalties for record companies but don’t pay royalties to music performers.
5. Songrite UK (Copyright Office)
This company is responsible for issuing copyright to songs,music and lyrics in the UK.Songrite is a leading global copyright registration service, used by both up and coming and professional songwriters who wish to claim and declare rightful ownership of their music based works. they register and secure the copyrights of new songs, music and lyrics in the UK music industry.
Note: in February 2008 the UK government launched a Green Paper on the Creative Industries, which advocates a similar ‘three strikes and you’re out’ policy, in which identified illegal downloaders are first warned, then suspended and then ultimately banned from using the internet by their ISPs. Similar initiatives are also being launched at a European level. The EU Telecommunications Package, agreed by MEPs last July, requires national regulators such as Ofcom to promote ‘cooperation’ between ISPs and parties ‘interested in the protection and promotion of lawful content’, which arguably requires such regulatory bodies to force ISPs to become regulators of consumer behaviour.
Futher Reading:
click on the link (www.bemuso.com) to view the UK collecting music royalties and the diagram and also the collection right societies in the rest of the world.
References
1. http://www.bemuso.com/musicbiz/collectionsocieties.html#collectingmusicroyalties
2. www.songrite.co.uk
3. www.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRS_for_Music
Tuesday 23 February 2010
Effect of Convergence
Convergence is a global phenomenon. It is a likely destination for the news media in many parts of the world, though the duration of the journey will vary from country to country. Some media organisations are eagerly embracing the concept, seeing it as a way to deal with an uncertain future.(Quinn and Quinn-Allan 2005)
1. Which traditional media are bound to disappear or transform to covergence? Why?
Digital COnvergence is replacing and modernizing the new ways of getting things done so easily,base on my knowledge i dont think that media organizations are bound to disappear due to convergence.but i strongly agree that traditional media will be transform by convergence in various ways,for examaple the internet is competiting with other business media such as news broadcasters,travel agencies,radio musics,TV programs & docummentary etc,all this things will be highly transformed because the internet has all the features and it is been made easy in such a way that any one in a developed country or with a phone that is connected to the internet can easily seacrh for flight and time of travel,read news online,watch TV programs & documentary's,chat and see the wheather forcast.
2. Will the convergence make london an even more multicultral and creative city?
Yes convergence will make london more multicultural and creative city.london is a multicultural and creative city and embracing convergence will make it more multicultural because of various nationals with vest culture and business ideas,due to the high speed of internet browsing,some one who has been hearing about the culture of a certain country can easily watch the documemtary,videos on youtube or better still attainding various festivals which different conutry's celebrate their culture here in london.(eg nottinghill festival)
3. Will convergence make the Creative and Cultural Industries more diverse or will it encourage segregation?
I dont think convergence will encourage segragation in the creative and cultural industries because various companys strive to grow and they have policys and code of conduct that the staff must adhere to.if their is any misunderstanding in any organisation,the members of the organization resolve the problems within them amicably,this is because any organisation with staff that encourages segragation will ruin the company.so i believe that this new digital technology will make the creative & cultural industries more diverse and this can be archieved by embracing the convergence. however according to BBC chairman Sir Christopher Bland in its 1996/97 annual report talks of preparing the BBC for the "impending digital revolution". "The entire broadcasting industry is experiencing massive changes and so far we have seen only the tip of the iceberg.Digital technology will allow choice and encourage competition on an unprecedented scale. Broadcasting will become both more disparate and more global, and certainly more commercial".
Birt, J (Director-General, BBC), 1996
References
1. http://planetoftunes.com/research/re_media/techconv.pdf
2. http://wiki.media-culture.org.au/index.php/Mobile_Phones_-_Convergence_-_Impact_on_the_Creative_Industries
Monday 22 February 2010
References
Used References for the UK music Industry
1. www.intute.ac.uk
Intute is an academic database used for searching thousands of resources to help you choose the key websites in your subject.it contributed immensely to my secondery research of "the UK music industry" and it gives me useful link of the subject am searching,i also used it to research any resources i find on other websites such as google and wikipedia.
*Note: Intute is created by a consortium of seven universities, working together with a whole host of partners.
The Intute consortium is:
University of Birmingham
University of Bristol
Heriot-Watt University
The University of Manchester
Manchester Metropolitan University
University of Nottingham
University of Oxford
2. www.scholar.google.co.uk
Google scholar is an advanced way of doing your research online & has features just like intute which provides a simple way to broadly search for schorlarly literature.
is a free online service that helps you to find the web resources for your studies and research.
3. www.google.co.uk
google.com is a popular search engine for research and i used it to get some useful informations on the UK music industry.however one of the useful resources i find through google search is the planetoftunes.com free resources.
4. www.planetoftunes.com
planet of tunes free resources is very useful because its ownd by a UK musician and multimedia artist Matt Ottewill. who was born in Hertfordshire north of London,the website provides very useful article which contains a diagram detailing the principal organisational structures of the music industry together with brief discussions of those organisations.
5. www.ukmusic.org
this is the website of the UK umbrella organisation that is representing the collective interests of the UK’s commercial music industry,i regurlary used this site because it includes the useful websites of the UK music industry organisations such as;Association of Independent Music (AIM), the British Academy of Composers & Songwriters (BASCA), BPI (British Recorded Music Industry) Limited, PRS for Music, the Music Managers Forum (MMF), the Music Publishers Association Limited (MPA), the Musicians Union (MU) and Phonographic Performance Limited (PPL).
6. www.wikipedia.org
wikipedia is another free online service that help search the web for thousands of resources.for example i googled the UK music industry and i found a useful information about the UK music organisational structure on wikipedia.org.
7. www.bbc.co.uk
BBC website news is where to find both old and recent docummentary's and news about the uk music industry,and i got useful informations and video of the british music award and the recent news of the UK "Abbey Road Studios".
8. www.jstore.org
jstore.org is a database used for academic research and it is very easy to search and get the resources you want, beacuse it has features such as the intute.ac.uk that will help the researcher finds the materials so easily.(jstore finds articles, theses, books, abstracts or court opinions & it also offers offers a high-quality, interdisciplinary archive to support scholarship and teaching.
9. www.guardian.co.uk
This is an official website of British national daily newspaper owned by the Guardian Media Group.the website has thousands of news & videos about the UK music industry,however it also has blogs about UK music organisations and its major players.
10. www.youtube.com
youtube.com is another websites that acts as online broadcasting media that has thousands of various documentary videos and news about the music industry.it was useful to my search on the UK music industry because i was able to watch various videos and news of the music industry. for example (www.youtube.com)
1. www.intute.ac.uk
Intute is an academic database used for searching thousands of resources to help you choose the key websites in your subject.it contributed immensely to my secondery research of "the UK music industry" and it gives me useful link of the subject am searching,i also used it to research any resources i find on other websites such as google and wikipedia.
*Note: Intute is created by a consortium of seven universities, working together with a whole host of partners.
The Intute consortium is:
University of Birmingham
University of Bristol
Heriot-Watt University
The University of Manchester
Manchester Metropolitan University
University of Nottingham
University of Oxford
2. www.scholar.google.co.uk
Google scholar is an advanced way of doing your research online & has features just like intute which provides a simple way to broadly search for schorlarly literature.
is a free online service that helps you to find the web resources for your studies and research.
3. www.google.co.uk
google.com is a popular search engine for research and i used it to get some useful informations on the UK music industry.however one of the useful resources i find through google search is the planetoftunes.com free resources.
4. www.planetoftunes.com
planet of tunes free resources is very useful because its ownd by a UK musician and multimedia artist Matt Ottewill. who was born in Hertfordshire north of London,the website provides very useful article which contains a diagram detailing the principal organisational structures of the music industry together with brief discussions of those organisations.
5. www.ukmusic.org
this is the website of the UK umbrella organisation that is representing the collective interests of the UK’s commercial music industry,i regurlary used this site because it includes the useful websites of the UK music industry organisations such as;Association of Independent Music (AIM), the British Academy of Composers & Songwriters (BASCA), BPI (British Recorded Music Industry) Limited, PRS for Music, the Music Managers Forum (MMF), the Music Publishers Association Limited (MPA), the Musicians Union (MU) and Phonographic Performance Limited (PPL).
6. www.wikipedia.org
wikipedia is another free online service that help search the web for thousands of resources.for example i googled the UK music industry and i found a useful information about the UK music organisational structure on wikipedia.org.
7. www.bbc.co.uk
BBC website news is where to find both old and recent docummentary's and news about the uk music industry,and i got useful informations and video of the british music award and the recent news of the UK "Abbey Road Studios".
8. www.jstore.org
jstore.org is a database used for academic research and it is very easy to search and get the resources you want, beacuse it has features such as the intute.ac.uk that will help the researcher finds the materials so easily.(jstore finds articles, theses, books, abstracts or court opinions & it also offers offers a high-quality, interdisciplinary archive to support scholarship and teaching.
9. www.guardian.co.uk
This is an official website of British national daily newspaper owned by the Guardian Media Group.the website has thousands of news & videos about the UK music industry,however it also has blogs about UK music organisations and its major players.
10. www.youtube.com
youtube.com is another websites that acts as online broadcasting media that has thousands of various documentary videos and news about the music industry.it was useful to my search on the UK music industry because i was able to watch various videos and news of the music industry. for example (www.youtube.com)
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