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Patrons, Curators, Inventors and Thieves

The Storytelling Contest of the Cultural Industries in the Digital Age

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  1. Jonathan Wheeldon
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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Introduction: A Changing Master-Narrative of Cultural Production

    1. Introduction: A Changing Master-Narrative of Cultural Production

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      Pages 1-19

  3. My Version of Events

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 21-21
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    2. A Personal Perspective

      • Jonathan Wheeldon
      Pages 23-28

    3. Innovation or Bust: A Short History of Recorded Music

      • Jonathan Wheeldon
      Pages 29-58

  4. Stakeholder Voices

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 59-61
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    2. Value Shift

      • Jonathan Wheeldon
      Pages 63-90

    3. Custodial Tensions

      • Jonathan Wheeldon
      Pages 91-111

    4. Hindsight and Strategic Sense-Making

      • Jonathan Wheeldon
      Pages 112-120

  5. A Storytelling Contest

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 121-122
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    2. The Analysis of Discourse

      • Jonathan Wheeldon
      Pages 123-130

    3. Strategy as Storytelling

      • Jonathan Wheeldon
      Pages 131-138

    4. Identification of Key Constructs

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      Pages 139-147

    5. A Narrative World

      • Jonathan Wheeldon
      Pages 148-156

    6. The Inventor’s Tale

      • Jonathan Wheeldon
      Pages 157-177

    7. Power and Ideology

      • Jonathan Wheeldon
      Pages 178-186

  6. The Pirate’s Tale: The Reform of Copyright and the Future

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 185-186
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    2. Pirates, Property and Privatization

      • Jonathan Wheeldon
      Pages 187-201

    3. Enclosing the Commons of the Mind

      • Jonathan Wheeldon
      Pages 202-212

    4. The 300-Year War of Copyright

      • Jonathan Wheeldon
      Pages 213-233
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About this book

Jonathan Wheeldon offers a rare and unusually reflective insider account of the transformational challenges of the music industry, and the cultural industries in general, over the past 15 years. He also makes a potentially valuable contribution to loosening the industrial-political deadlock in the debate over copyright reform.

Reviews

'A superb book. This is one of the best analytical accounts by an insider of the cultural industries. Actually no: one of the best analytical accounts by ANYONE of the cultural industries.' - David Hesmondhalgh, Professor of Media and Music Industries, Institute of Communications Studies, University of Leeds

'For anyone on the front line of the on-going debates around copyright this hugely insightful book is an essential guide. It is at once a memoir showing how we got here, an atlas showing us where we are, and a lexicon telling us what our words and discourse really mean.' - Richard Mollet, Chief Executive, the Publishers Association, and former Director of Public Affairs, the BPI

'In this important and beautifully written book, an industry insider brings experience and research to bear on understanding corporations in the age of digitization. Wheeldon's understanding is itself cultural, and his lessons have wide application for how we manage and consume cultural products in future.' - Martin Parker, Professor of Culture and Organization, School of Management, University of Leicester

About the author

Jonathan Wheeldon is a Chartered Accountant and Visiting Fellow at Henley Business School. He spent ten years at Universal Music in senior positions in New York, Madrid, Los Angeles and London. He has served as Group Finance Director of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Really Useful Group where he financed the $70 million Oscar-nominated movie The Phantom of the Opera. He was Senior Vice President of Corporate Development at EMI Group leading up to its sale to private equity in 2007, and most recently he has served as Executive Director and Chief Financial Officer of Macmillan Publishers.

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