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Why Communities Are The Future Of The Music Industry

shesaid.so - Sam Schoonover (Coachella), SUCHI (Daytimers)

Moderator: Kat Young (ZORA) and Christine Osazuwa (shesaid.so)


The music industry is constantly being reshaped by new technologies. Since the advent of the World Wide Web, power has slowly shifted away from gatekeepers and into the hands of creators, curators and the community overall. In spite of that, the internet as we know it has also led to a bottleneck of influence & commerce in the hands of a few tech companies and the people who lead them. At the same time, more and more communities started leveraging these digital tools to connect with one another, collectively organize and reclaim the music ecosystem. Today, web3 is promising to disrupt, decentralize and provide transparency once again. This discussion aims to disseminate these trends and look at case studies that hypothesize why communities are the future of the music industry.

Huis Vasari (Vrije Academie)

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