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Climbing the charts : what radio airplay tells us about the diffusion of innovation / Gabriel Rossman.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [2012]Copyright date: ©2012Description: xi, 184 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0691148732
  • 9780691148731
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.48424 23
LOC classification:
  • ML3918.P67 R67 2012
Contents:
1. Introduction -- The diffusion of innovation -- The production of culture -- 2. How songs spread -- Record release dates -- Corporate radio -- 3. Buying your way onto the charts -- A history of payola scandals -- The 1950s scandal and the rise of rock and roll -- The 1973 Drugola Scandal -- The Gambino family and "The Network" in the 1980s -- Corporate radio, professionalized payola, and the 2005 Spitzer Investigation -- Suppressing payola -- The robust logic of payola -- 4. Can radio stations break singles? -- The role of "opinion leaders" in diffusion -- The distribution of connection in radio -- Diffusion of pop songs and radio stations -- The role of influentials for endogenous diffusion -- 5. The Dixie Chicks radio boycott -- Corporate censorship -- Social movements -- Genre -- 6. But which chart do you climb? -- Trends in the differentiation of radio formats -- Classification and art -- Crossover -- New genres and formats -- Reggaetón comes to the Mainland -- The development of the "Hurban" format as an artistic and market niche -- 7. The future of the chart -- General lessons of the book for diffusion of innovations -- Particular lessons for diffusion in pop music radio -- Centralization and distribution of decision-making -- The struggle to control publicity -- Structures of salient information -- Genre -- The emerging structure of popular culture industries in the Twenty-first Century.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-165) and index.

1. Introduction -- The diffusion of innovation -- The production of culture -- 2. How songs spread -- Record release dates -- Corporate radio -- 3. Buying your way onto the charts -- A history of payola scandals -- The 1950s scandal and the rise of rock and roll -- The 1973 Drugola Scandal -- The Gambino family and "The Network" in the 1980s -- Corporate radio, professionalized payola, and the 2005 Spitzer Investigation -- Suppressing payola -- The robust logic of payola -- 4. Can radio stations break singles? -- The role of "opinion leaders" in diffusion -- The distribution of connection in radio -- Diffusion of pop songs and radio stations -- The role of influentials for endogenous diffusion -- 5. The Dixie Chicks radio boycott -- Corporate censorship -- Social movements -- Genre -- 6. But which chart do you climb? -- Trends in the differentiation of radio formats -- Classification and art -- Crossover -- New genres and formats -- Reggaetón comes to the Mainland -- The development of the "Hurban" format as an artistic and market niche -- 7. The future of the chart -- General lessons of the book for diffusion of innovations -- Particular lessons for diffusion in pop music radio -- Centralization and distribution of decision-making -- The struggle to control publicity -- Structures of salient information -- Genre -- The emerging structure of popular culture industries in the Twenty-first Century.

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