Post by Rachel Tucker Trout

The modern music industry wasn't built by visionaries. It was built on stolen culture, exploitative contracts, and the deliberate targeting of the most vulnerable artists available. I wrote this piece for my Music Industry History course at Musicians Institute of Hollywood tracing the full arc from minstrel shows through the Great Depression - and how every single "innovation" of that era (phonograph, race records, radio, jukeboxes) made exploitation more efficient, not less. The same playbook is still running today. The aesthetics changed. The theft didn't. Full article below. 👇 #MusicHistory #MusicIndustry #MusicBusiness #MusicEducation #BlackMusicHistory #CulturalAppropiation #MusicMarketing #IndependentArtist #MusicRights #ArtistRights