Sign up to save your podcasts
Or
Share Mafias - Live Music
Share to email
Share to Facebook
Share to X
Share to email
Share to Facebook
Share to X
Or
Mafias - Live Music
Woodstock did not have a sponsor, people flooded to Hyde Park for a free concert from the Rolling Stones but now a top price ticket to see Bon Jovi - the 'Diamond Circle VIP Experience' - can cost you something approaching $2,000. What has happened to live music to transform it into the industry it has become? How have concert performances become a successful way of funding music when recorded music has been in retreat? Laurie Taylor speaks to two authorities in the field of popular music studies, Simon Frith and Martin Cloonan, to discuss the social and economic changes which have brought music performance to the fore.
Also we hear of Russian mobsters in New York, Chinese Triads in London and Italian Mafias across the western world, but is organised crime really spreading like a global virus? The criminologist Federico Varese explores the capacities of mafias trying to conquer new territories.
Producer: Charlie Taylor.
View all episodes
By BBC Radio 4
4.5
294294 ratings
Woodstock did not have a sponsor, people flooded to Hyde Park for a free concert from the Rolling Stones but now a top price ticket to see Bon Jovi - the 'Diamond Circle VIP Experience' - can cost you something approaching $2,000. What has happened to live music to transform it into the industry it has become? How have concert performances become a successful way of funding music when recorded music has been in retreat? Laurie Taylor speaks to two authorities in the field of popular music studies, Simon Frith and Martin Cloonan, to discuss the social and economic changes which have brought music performance to the fore.
Also we hear of Russian mobsters in New York, Chinese Triads in London and Italian Mafias across the western world, but is organised crime really spreading like a global virus? The criminologist Federico Varese explores the capacities of mafias trying to conquer new territories.
Producer: Charlie Taylor.
More shows like Thinking Allowed
View all
Global News Podcast
7,913 Listeners
From Our Own Correspondent
376 Listeners
More or Less
863 Listeners
Newshour
1,067 Listeners
In Our Time
5,576 Listeners
The Documentary Podcast
1,808 Listeners
In Our Time: History
1,910 Listeners
In Our Time: Philosophy
870 Listeners
In Our Time: Science
743 Listeners
Arts & Ideas
303 Listeners
6 Minute English
1,729 Listeners
Learning English Conversations
1,018 Listeners
Friday Night Comedy from BBC Radio 4
2,113 Listeners
The Infinite Monkey Cage
1,952 Listeners
Great Lives
488 Listeners
BBC Inside Science
410 Listeners
Moral Maze
73 Listeners
The Audio Long Read
841 Listeners
Start the Week
159 Listeners
All in the Mind
62 Listeners
The Briefing Room
75 Listeners
You're Dead to Me
3,245 Listeners
Americast
779 Listeners
The Bomb
1,010 Listeners