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[Book] Ripped: How the Wired Generation Revolutionized Music

Posted on 05. Jun, 2009 by Antonella Stellacci.

Everything (and nothing) can be said about the music industry. Chances are you heard it before,  or you said it before, or it was discussed in a conference, or twitted and blogged…

So when you buy a book on this topic, the best you can hope is to re-learn something or understand its historic or human motivations.  And there’s certainly that to be acknowledged to  Greg Kot’s book, How the Wired Generation Revolutionized Music.

But more than the learning, Ripped stays with you because it is not a dry theory, but it lives the lives of the hundreds of persons and facts that Greg Kot, a Chicago Tribune music blogger since the 1990s, collected as an insider.

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