Getting heard in Tibet: Music, media and markets

Morcom, Anna

doi:10.1080/10253860802391284

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“…Apart from the deep structural problems in the reform era in China such as social inequality, glaring polarisation and a patchy state welfare system that push disadvantaged members of society to make money by all possible means so as to rely on themselves, the data in the present study has led us to the issues of law enforcement. Lack of enforcement has been singled out to be a major problem with product counterfeiting in China (see, for example, Chow, 2000;Kramer, 2006;Lin, 2011;Morcom, 2008). This study offers a number of reasons for it.…”

Section:  Trademark Sign and Packing Materials Producersmentioning

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‘No banquet can do without liquor’: alcohol counterfeiting in the People’s Republic of China

Shen

Antonopoulos

2016

Trends Organ Crim

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The illegal trade in alcohol has been an empirical manifestation of organised crime with a very long history; yet, the nature of the illegal trade in alcohol has received relatively limited academic attention in recent years despite the fact that it has been linked with significant tax evasion as well as serious health problems and even deaths. The current article focuses on a specific type associated with the illegal trade in alcohol, the counterfeiting of alcohol in China. The article pays particular attention to the counterfeiting of baijiu, Chinese liquor in mainland China. The aim of the article is to offer an account of the social organisation of alcohol counterfeiting business in China by illustrating the counterfeiting process, the actors in the business as well as its possible embeddedness in legal practices and industries/trades. The alcohol counterfeiting business is highly reflective to the market demand and consumer needs. Alcohol counterfeiting in China is characterised primarily by independent actors many of whom are subcontracted to provide commodities and services about the counterfeiting process. The business relies on personal networks -family and extended family members, friends and acquaintances. Relationships between actors in the business are very often based on a customer-supplier relationship or a 'business-to-business market'. The alcohol counterfeiting business in China highlights the symbiotic relationship between illegal and legal businesses.

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Section:  Trademark Sign and Packing Materials Producersmentioning

confidence: 99%

‘No banquet can do without liquor’: alcohol counterfeiting in the People’s Republic of China

Shen

Antonopoulos

2016

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“…During this time, TIPA have also been producing annual video CDs of songs and dances, funded as before with money from the Central Tibetan Administration and private donors, although these are largely traditional, and Akama is not currently a major force in Tibetan exile pop music. 28 This has happened in Tibet itself with the move to VCDs, and affected market access (Morcom 2008).…”

Section: Album Production and Distributionmentioning

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“…13-52). After the end of the Cultural Revolution in 1976, as China started to move towards a market economy, non-state, private spheres of music making gradually emerged, including popular music from the late 1980s (Morcom 2004(Morcom , 2008Henrion-Dourcy 2005). 19 The Chinese annexation of Tibet led, in 1959, to an immense uprising in Lhasa, and the Dalai Lama fled to India, followed by 80,000 Tibetans.…”

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“…In Tibet itself, there is a considerable role of patronage (or subsidy) of popular music by the Chinese state and by wealthy businessmen and members of the religious establishment (Morcom 2008;Gayley 2011, forthcoming). In exile, patronage as such has not played a significant role in music, beyond support of TIPA, with major surplus resources typically going into such things as religion, education or health.…”

Section: The Economic Dynamics Of Tibetan Pop Musicmentioning

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Locating music in capitalism: a view from exile Tibet

Morcom¹

2015

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Since the late 1990s, a thriving scene of pop music has developed among the numerically very small and globally highly dispersed Tibetan exile community. This clearly connects it with globalisation and the spread of what is termed the neoliberal phase of capitalism to India and Nepal where most Tibetan exiles live, and the related spread of digital recording technology and facilities -commodities produced by often large, multinational corporations. Yet this micro industry is not profitable, and even though it is pop music and monetised, it is not 'commercial', and in fact is seen and structured more as 'community work'. Exile Tibetan pop music thus cannot be located outside of capitalism, yet at the same time it is not in and of itself capitalist. In this paper, the author explores new ways in which we can locate music in capitalism, looking beyond the ideas of commercialism or commoditisation and takeover or resistance that have dominated theoretical approaches since Adorno and have fixed popular music especially with a still-enduring 'capitalist' image. The author draws in particular on the historian Fernand Braudel's model of capitalism as an 'anti-market' that lies 'on top' of other social and economic layers. Thus capitalism exerts global hegemony, yet there remain uneven spaces such as exile Tibetan pop music, which are in and of themselves not capitalist, existing within it and because of it.

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“…The articles in the special issue covers a range of topics: the social and romantic role of the Jamaican dancehall (Olsen and Gould, 2008), the resisting potential of Tibetan music (Morcom, 2008), the role of anti-apartheid music as 'retro' today (Drewett, 2008), the role of jazz in film plots (Holbrook, 2008), and self-identity and music (Hesmondhalgh, 2008). The guest editors put forth a wish that these articles 'will contribute to wider discussions of music more generally within our field' (Bradshaw and Shankar, 2008).…”

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Sonic branding: A consumer-oriented literature review

Gustafsson

2015

J Brand Manag

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Because music holds a strong power over people, and its impact on consumers is relatively direct, it is invariably an interesting medium for marketers. Although Sonic Branding -branding with music and sound -has been seen as 'the next big thing' in branding toward consumers for about a decade, it is a scattered field still waiting for its breakthrough. Addressing this problem, the present consumer-oriented review of literature offers new insights on the consumer perspective's role in Sonic Branding today, and provides implications for future marketing research and practice. The present article also suggests that there is need for using a common set of Sonic Branding concepts in order to unify the field. Further, the majority of businesses do not yet understand Sonic Branding as the uniquely consumer-oriented practice it has the potential to be. Understanding the way that consumers themselves use music is crucial to successful brand management in this area. However, for theorists and practitioners alike, the immediate challenge lies in developing those concepts and labels for Sonic Branding that will unite the field, and thereby increase its future impact.

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Getting heard in Tibet: Music, media and markets

Cited by 16 publications

References 8 publications

‘No banquet can do without liquor’: alcohol counterfeiting in the People’s Republic of China

‘No banquet can do without liquor’: alcohol counterfeiting in the People’s Republic of China

Locating music in capitalism: a view from exile Tibet

Sonic branding: A consumer-oriented literature review

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