Consumers, Recording, and Playback in the Television and Recording Industries (Panel #2)

Panel Columnist: Tim Anderson (Denison University)
Participants: Andy Langer (Austin Chronicle, music critic), Scott Romig (Dexter Freebish, music producer and musician), Kyle Barnett (Bellarmine University), Patrick Burkart (Texas A&M University), Sam O'Connell (Northwestern University), Kevin John Bozelka (University of Texas at Austin)
Moderator: Afsheen Nomai (University of Texas at Austin)

Question:This roundtable will discuss issues of recordings and playback for television and music. I see them as both similar and different. I am particularly interested in the issue of what it means to "own" and control programming. It seems rather common sense for viewers, but for academics we are still dominated by issues of narrative and the text. To me, this seems to be under-discussed and research since the technologies seem to offer both producers and consumers new sets of textual tactics that affect issues of meaning, economics, pedagogy, recontextualization, etc. All of these are issues that the music industry has had to deal with for over 50 years, however we, as media academics, do not know much about them. That said, I would hope that we would be willing to look at the music industry as a place where we could learn about issues of recontextualization, economics, programming, etc.