The prehistory of sex: [four million years of human sexual culture]
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In: Anthropology
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In: Anthropology
In: The American economist: journal of the International Honor Society in Economics, Omicron Delta Epsilon, Band 53, Heft 1, S. 48-59
ISSN: 2328-1235
In: American Indian Culture and Research Journal, Band 33, Heft 3, S. 103-105
In: The International trade journal, Band 17, Heft 2, S. 101-128
ISSN: 1521-0545
In: Current anthropology, Band 34, Heft 5, S. 723-735
ISSN: 1537-5382
In: Current anthropology, Band 32, Heft 2, S. 212-216
ISSN: 1537-5382
In: Current anthropology, Band 29, Heft 4, S. 671-679
ISSN: 1537-5382
In Making Value, Timothy D. Taylor examines how people's conceptions of value inform and shape their production and consumption of music. Drawing on anthropological value theory, Taylor theorizes music's economic and noneconomic forms of value both ethnographically and historically. He covers the creation and exchange of value in a wide range of contexts: indie rock scenes, an Irish traditional music session, the work of music managers, how supply chains function to create various forms of value, how trendspotters seek out and create value, and how musical performances act as media of value. Taylor shows that to focus on value is to attend to what is meaningful to people as they move through their worlds. Ultimately, Taylor demonstrates that theorizing value aids us in moving beyond the music itself toward understanding how musicians, workers in the music business, and audiences struggle to make and maintain what they value
In: Chicago studies in ethnomusicology
In: Big issues in music
"In this book, Timothy D. Taylor explores just how pervasively capitalism has shaped music over the last few decades. Examining changes in the production, distribution, and consumption of music, he offers an incisive critique of the music industry's shift in focus from creativity to profits, as well as stories of those who are laboring to find and make musical meaning in the shadows of the mainstream cultural industries. Taylor explores everything from the branding of musicians to the globalization of music to the emergence of digital technologies in music production and consumption. Drawing on interviews with industry insiders, musicians, and indie label workers, he traces both the constricting forces of bottom-line economics and the revolutionary emergence of the affordable home studio, the global internet, and the mp3 that have shaped music in different ways. A sophisticated analysis of how music is made, repurposed, advertised, sold, pirated, and consumed, Music and Capitalism is a must read for anyone who cares about what they are listening to, how, and why"--Provided by publisher
From the early days of radio through the rise of television after World War II to the present, music has been used more and more to sell goods and establish brand identities. And since the 1920s, songs originally written for commercials have become popular songs, and songs written for a popular audience have become irrevocably associated with specific brands and products. Today, musicians move flexibly between the music and advertising worlds, while the line between commercial messages and popular music has become increasingly blurred. Timothy D. Taylor tracks the use of music in American advertising for nearly a century, from variety shows like The Clicquot Club Eskimos to the rise of the jingle, the postwar upsurge in consumerism, and the more complete fusion of popular music and consumption in the 1980s and after. The Sounds of Capitalism is the first book to tell truly the history of music used in advertising in the United States and is an original contribution to this little-studied part of our cultural history.
In: The great courses
In: A Plume book
In: World Bank technical paper 318
In: Africa Technical Department series
In: The British journal of politics & international relations: BJPIR, Band 23, Heft 3, S. 374-390
ISSN: 1467-856X
Under what conditions will political parties emphasise trade policy during national elections? While research shows the importance of domestic politics in driving trade policy, little attention has been directed towards its electoral salience. This study posits that electoral rules affect politicians' incentives to politicise foreign trade. In single-member district systems, where the seats-votes elasticity is high, political parties have strong incentives to cater to voters. In contrast, proportional representation systems generate stronger incentives for parties to accommodate to industry interests. The winner-take-all nature of plurality rules thus generates stronger pressures for parties to politicise trade policy. The argument is empirically supported through an analysis of party election platforms in 32 countries from 1961 to 2016. These results indicate that electoral regimes affect not only trade policy, but also its elite-driven attention in national elections.
In: International interactions: empirical and theoretical research in international relations, Band 41, Heft 1, S. 84-109
ISSN: 1547-7444