Description
Technology and innovation in Performing Arts disciplines; Performing Arts and digital technology; Players in recording industry versus performing Artists in entertainment Industry; Marketing, Concert (festivals) organization, acoustics and performance issues; Quality versus mediocrity; Censorship and rights to information; Performing arts and media politics; Performing Arts and globalization; Contemporary challenges and prospects in Performing Arts and technology.
In this paper I first provide some reflections on three issues; communication as achieved through the music medium, cultural and artiste’s identity in popular music. and the realities of the medium as an archive material with possibilities of attracting markets for artists and national economies. Given, globalization has engendered efforts by artists to produce musical styles hitherto unknown...