The history of the music industry is tied up with technologies that mediate or monetise music. These may take various shapes, including performance venues, printing, radio broadcasting and recording, copyrights and royalties and, nowadays, streaming platforms and generative artificial intelligence.
Miguel Carvalhais, “Labels, Music, Technology and Dematerialisation.” Break in Case of Emergency: A Survival Kit for Independent Musicians and Labels in the Emergent Digital Environment, edited by Hugo Branco, 29-31. Aveiro: Vic Nic. 2023.