Corporate Life in the Digital Music Industry: Remaking the Major Record Label from the Inside Out

＂Drawing on a deep and long-term first-hand engagement with major labels in the early years of the twenty-first century, this book sheds light ’behind the scenes’, at a time of drastic and far-reaching transformation. Refreshingly, it centers not on artists and the most powerful decision-makers but on everyday experiences of work and back-office corporate employees. This oft-forgotten office work tells a different story of contemporary digital music, one more sensitive to the complex intersections that texture the conduct of work and organizational life＂--

Toby Bennett is a research fellow at the Centre for Culture and the Creative Industries, City, University of London, UK. He researches cultural production and creative economy, currently under a European Union funded project, while teaching Creative Industries and Music Business Management. His previous career was in rights management at Universal Music Group and he has since worked with labels, entrepreneurs and policy actors in arts, creative and music industries.