Cambridge, Mass. ; London : Harvard University Press, 2000
Table of Contents:
“…Artists as apprentices -- Artists, dealers, and deals -- Artist and gatekeeper: trade books, popular records, and classical music -- Artists, starving and well-fed -- The Hollywood studios disintegrate -- Contracts for creative products: films and plays -- Guilds, unions, and faulty contracts -- The nurture of ten-ton turkeys -- Creative products go to market: books and records -- Creative products go to market: films -- Buffs, buzz, and educated tastes -- Consumers, critics, and certifiers -- Innovation, fads, and fashions -- Covering high fixed costs -- Donor-supported nonprofit organizations in the performing arts -- Cost disease and its analgesics -- Durable creative goods: rents pursued through time and space -- Payola -- Organizing to collect rents: music copyrights -- Entertainment conglomerates and the quest for rents -- Filtering and storing durable creative goods: visual arts -- New versus old art: Boulez meets Beethoven.…”