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The aftermath of a crisis: Quebec music industries in the 1980s

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 November 2008

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Increased market concentration of multinational record companies, greater integration of major labels with international multi-media and entertainment conglomerates, as well as long economic recession were among the most striking developments of the 1980s to impact upon music-related industries. In the French-speaking province of Quebec (Canada), these developments, combined with local socio-political turmoil, left popular music in the throes of crisis and further jeopardised an indigenous music industry still in the making. The purpose of this paper is to examine the ways in which a local industry, by coming to terms with the aforementioned international developments, overcame what could well have spelled its doom.

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Popular Music , Volume 12 , Issue 3 , October 1993 , pp. 209 - 227
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1993

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