December 2021

Extra: a music deep dive on The Unlearn Project

author icon Sandra Peter, Kai Riemer

In this extra episode, we take a deep dive into the history of the music industry.

We go down rabbit holes that take us from Victorian England to Sydney harbour in the 70s and then on to the hip hop culture of New York in the 80s. We trace the music industry as it resisted and adapted to the rise of new technologies and came to understand music as a product. We hear from a leading researcher on popular music, the creator of the first music sampler, a renowned hip hop artist, and even Thomas Edison…


This podcast was originally published by Sydney Business Insights and republished with permission. See the original post.