All Entries in the "Entertainment Research" Category
Minnesota Economic Summit in 2000
In December 2000, I submitted a proposal for an entertainment company to then Governor Jesse Ventura. This was the first time I ever entertained (pun intended) the idea of starting a company. It was handed to him by one of his body guards at the Minnesota Economic Summit, which took place at the Convention Center [...]
Popular Music
Pop music is not a readily recognized area of academic study by many universities and schools. Academia lags far behind in the study of a now estimated 40 billion a year global music industry that reaches far beyond economics. When music artists like Elvis, Beatles, Madonna and Michael Jackson are more well known and loved [...]
Music By The Numbers
Underlying the entire entertainment industry is…math. Every songwriter is a number and every song is a statistic. No aspect of the industry escapes the wrath of measurement. The industry is measured. Companies are measured. Sales, artists, popularity and even importance–are all areas that come under the scrutiny of a stat report. While you might be [...]
Future of Music
We’ve barely explored the use of digital music in film scores and Pop/Rock. There is a significant difference between “electronic” and “digital.” Even though we use “electronica” to describe a currently popular genre of music, the word electronic is archaic. Composers today have access to sound libraries (samples) numbering in the 10s of 1000s. Plus, [...]
