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The US Recorded Music Industry: On the Relations between Organization, Location, and Creativity in the Cultural Economy

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  • A J Scott

    (Department of Policy Studies and Department of Geography, Uuniversity of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA)

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A description of the US recorded music industry is offered stressing (a) the two-tier structure of the industry divided as it is into majors and independents, and (b) the complex social division of labor that characterizes the overall production system. The locational characteristics of the recorded music industry are discussed, and it is shown that, although there is a wide scattering of companies across the entire United States, the main centers of production are in Los Angeles, New York, and Nashville. It is then demonstrated that Los Angeles and New York have a capacity to produce hit records that far exceeds their relative significance in terms of number of recording companies, even after abstracting away the effects of the majors. This capacity is conceptualized in terms of the creative field that is brought into existence by the dense agglomeration of many different specialized firms and workers interacting together in one place in the tasks of economic and cultural production.

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  • A J Scott, 1999. "The US Recorded Music Industry: On the Relations between Organization, Location, and Creativity in the Cultural Economy," Environment and Planning A, , vol. 31(11), pages 1965-1984, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:envira:v:31:y:1999:i:11:p:1965-1984
    DOI: 10.1068/a311965
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