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American Music: Off the Record (2008)

American Music: Off the Record poster
Directed by
Benjamin Meade
Genre
documentary film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 29m
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

This documentary examines the American music industry through interviews with theorists. It looks at issues like live music's authenticity, indie distribution, and the decline of small music stores.

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What happens

American Music: Off the Record is a 2008 American documentary film that features theorists Noam Chomsky and Douglas Rushkoff in an interrogation of the American music industry. The film covers a great deal of ground from the authenticity of live music to the circumvention of the corporate machine by indie distribution, to the demise of the privately owned music store. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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