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Popgeschichte
(2010)
Pop bzw. das Populäre hat in den vergangenen Jahren auch im akademischen Diskurs stark an Gewicht gewonnen. Während sich Disziplinen wie die Kultur-, Musik- und insbesondere die Literaturwissenschaften schon seit Jahrzehnten verstärkt um Theoriebildung auf diesem Feld bemühen, ist es innerhalb der Geschichtsschreibung bislang eher schwach konturiert. Dennoch kommt kaum ein Überblickswerk zur Nachkriegszeit mehr ohne die Kategorie Pop aus.
»Hits für das Tonbandgerät, Alben für den Plattenspieler? Die Markteinführung des Tonbandgerätes in Westdeutschland und die Urheberrechtsdebatte über Musikaufnahmen jugendlicher Konsumenten in den 1950er und 1960er Jahren«. Since the late 1950s, tape recorders were increasingly to be found in West German households. This device for the first time gave the consumers the opportunity to record music from records or from the radio. This triggered off discussions between the record industry and the GEMA (Society for musical performing and mechanical reproduction rights) on the one hand and tape recorder producers and users on the other hand. Whereas the former complained about falling record sales and called for the introduction of copyright fees, the latter argued that the tape recorder offered a large range of applications and that therefore a collective charging of producers and/ or users would not be justified. Against the background of the changing legal situation, the article retraces the copyright debate and evaluates the opponents’ arguments. In spite of the manifold functions of the tape recorder, young consumers predominantly employed it to record their favourite light music. But these appropriation practices did not cause an overall decline in record sales but rather a change in music consumption patterns. While the possibility of recording single hits did in fact lead to falling sales figures of 45rpm-discs, sales of longplaying-records rose considerably