CultCap

The Cultural Capital project aims to re-envision the digital music industry based on connectivity, sharing, and sustainability. @brianfauteux @astrobri @dewaard

[CultCap @Cult_Cap]

Happy holidays. Our site has been hacked but we'll be regrouping in the new year and will sort everything out. Lots on the horizon for 2025.

[Brian Fauteux @brianfauteux]

Closing this tonight. A quick look at the responses and there is so much good stuff. Lots of work to do. On the question of "exciting things happening in the music industries," I appreciate the range of: "I don't know of any" to "forming collectives to create bargaining power"

[Brian Fauteux @brianfauteux]

Popular Music Books in Process Series / Tues March 18 5pm ET / Liz Pelly, Andrew deWaard, and Brian Fauteux

"Spotify, Satellites, and C-Suites: Three Presentations on the Streaming Music Industries"

To join listerv or contact organizers for zoom link: https://t.co/UeCM3uxFH4

[Brian Fauteux @brianfauteux]

MUSIC IN ORBIT: SATELLITE RADIO IN THE STREAMING SPACE AGE is *officially* out today with @ucpress.

Available in a number of formats and you can now get 30% off with the promo code:  UCPSAVE30

https://t.co/7meHvHusQV

[Brian Fauteux @brianfauteux]

It's amazing to see this profile of DIY music making in a national newspaper, and to see so many artist voices represented here. Really great work by @lukeottenhof (and thanks for referencing some of our research with @Cult_Cap)

[Brian Fauteux @brianfauteux]

DiMA is a lobby group for big tech companies (amazon, spotify, etc) that will make it seem like them having to pay into canadian content development is a user problem and will make life more expensive, instead of simply supporting the cultural industries in countries they operate

[Andrew deWaard @dewaard]

DERIVATIVE MEDIA is out today with @ucpress ! It's the first in-depth book on how Wall Street is harming film, television, and popular music. It's available in print or for free as an ebook. Please share!

https://t.co/Db3vqL0EqR

https://t.co/fo7lYu4mSX

#pubday

[Brian Fauteux @brianfauteux]

About a year ago, we wrote about why this is a good move and part of a longer history of support for Canadian music industries.

https://t.co/qDlrfMGPcn

[Brian Fauteux @brianfauteux]

As per the Online Streaming Act, major streaming companies, those with profits over $25 million, will be paying into Canadian content development. For audio, this is broken down as follows:

[Brian Fauteux @brianfauteux]

We're very happy to have received a @SSHRC_CRSH Insight Grant to keep the @Cult_Cap research going. Over the new few years, we'll be working on "CanCon and its Digital Discontents: A Public Infrastructure Model for Canadian Music." Which means more tweeting about Big Wreck.

[CultCap @Cult_Cap]

Thank you!

[Maisonneuve Magazine @maisonneuvemag]

The published work from the @Cult_Cap project was essential to my research. If you're interested in getting into the weeds about how the industry operates and thrives on inequality, I can't recommend their writing enough.

https://t.co/l9WIF57vM0

[Maisonneuve Magazine @maisonneuvemag]

"Entering a DIY scene means learning how to engage with its people and spaces in a respectful way, which takes time and effort."

In "Exit Music," @therewasnosound analyzes ongoing gentrification in the DIY music scene. Read more of his thoughts below 🧵

https://t.co/6KKXZuyZT1

[Brian Fauteux @brianfauteux]

Just under a month to submit to this special issue on sustainable futures in popular music. ⬇️⬇️

[Brian Fauteux @brianfauteux]

ICYMI: We (@Cult_Cap) wrote about the role of Canadian Content regulations in the broader music industries in Canada; as well on #BillC11 and the potential for regulation and public funding for music to weather the ill effects of consolidation in media.

https://t.co/qDlrfMGPcn

[NEW FEELING @newfeelingcoop]

“The bigger story amidst all of this is: musicians are retaining less and less of their copyright, revenue streams, and capacity to earn a livelihood if they’re not one of the few mass marketed through the major label and tech company ecosystem.” @dewaard

https://t.co/g49r4hJqNY

[CultCap @Cult_Cap]

Our latest @ConversationCA article on #BillC11, Canadian Content for music, and consolidation in the media industries.

[Brian Fauteux @brianfauteux]

We've entered the #BillC11 discourse to advocate for a more thorough consideration of the positive potential for Canadian Content regulations for Canadian music in the streaming media era.

https://t.co/qDlrfMGhmP

[NEW FEELING @newfeelingcoop]

Really interesting thread on @Cult_Cap's recent research re: the industry structure in Canada

[CultCap @Cult_Cap]

For more, see the link above, or the following one which heads straight to the PDF:

https://t.co/cwcpn2X1HY

[CultCap @Cult_Cap]

We submitted a brief to the Consultation on the Future of Competition Policy in Canada; titled “The Lack of Competition in the Music Industries, the Effect on Working Musicians, and the Loss of Canadian Music Heritage”

https://t.co/v9eV39rONQ

[CultCap @Cult_Cap]

Our second set of recommendations acknowledges the potential harms to Canadian consumers of “platform capitalism” in terms of data extraction, loss of privacy, vendor lock-in, rising prices due to network effects, and other consumer harms.