Introduction As funding at the top end of the music industries continues to concentrate into proven heritage rights, so there is developing a trend to explore alternative options, for new creators or fans that simply want a piece of the action. Crowdfunding, democratisation of investment, could provide competition to traditional mechanisms of securing capital. Advancement of capital represents a key pillar on which institutions within the music industries continue to pin their business, yet as with each set of services, development of technology is increasing competition.
All these initiatives require awareness of the connection between paying for music and the well-being (or survival) of musicians at a scale that seems impossible to me, outside small communities of devoted fans.
All these initiatives require awareness of the connection between paying for music and the well-being (or survival) of musicians at a scale that seems impossible to me, outside small communities of devoted fans.