Les territoires de l’innovation : les réseaux de l’industrie de la musique en recomposition

Abstract

Among the cultural industries, the music industry is understudied. Its structure is evolving under the effect of a vertical and horizontal concentration of the disc companies and their integration to multimedia multinationals. At the same time, the music industry as it is spatially configured presently is put into question by the disruption of the numeric technology and the digital compression. Both the economic concentration and the digital compression are linked while they are related to the spatial regulation of innovation and to the interactions between the networks of production and innovation. These interactions are the sources of a shift in the spatial, technological and cost control within the musical industry.