The music industry was the first media sector to be massively affected by digitization and the internet. In this paper, the strongly technology-driven transformation of the sector is first reconstructed, divided into distinguishable development phases and condensed into characteristic...

Introduction / Colette Henry -- The nature of creative entrepreneurship -- The creative industries in East and Southeast Asia / Desmond Hui -- Art-entrepreneurship in the Scandinavian music industry / Maria Aggestam -- Creative industries in the UK : cultural diffusion or discontinuity? / David...