Crowdfunding and Independence in Film and Music

This book explores how independent film and music artists and labels use crowdfunding and where this use places crowdfunding in the contemporary system of cultural production. It complements an analysis of independence in film and music with the topic of crowdfunding as a firmly established form of financing cultural activity.

Blanka Brzozowska is Associate Professor at the Institute of Contemporary Culture at the University of -ód-, Poland. Patryk Galuszka is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Economics and Sociology at the University of -ód-, Poland.

1. Introduction; 2. Crowdfunding as a New Form of Financing Creative Activity; 3. Crowdfunding Independent Cinema; 4. Crowdfunding and Independence in Music; 5. Conclusions; References