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Current Trends in Marketing Communication of Musicians on the Czech rap Market
Slovák, Jan ; Klabíková Rábová, Tereza (advisor) ; Rosenfeldová, Jana (referee)
The connection between the world of music and the world of business is nowadays a current theme. The music industry is not only about mainstream performers and bands, but also about alternative scenes. Marketing plays a major role in this environment, in relationship to brands and social networks and in the individual promotion of music. Hip-hop culture affects the lives of young people around the world. It is not just about topics related to violence and drugs, as this culture was originally represented in the US, but it can also be associated with everyday life in the village, as represented by Opak Dissu Label. The thesis was written from the position of a marketing student and a music producer. The thesis applies these mechanisms on the contemporary Czech rap scene. It presents some notable examples of Czech and Slovak rap artists' marketing communication, which had an effect on their popularity. Furthermore, the thesis analyses linguistic and visual communication of non-traditional rap group Opak Dissu Label on social networks. The analysis was also possible thanks to an interview with members of this group. The thesis is complemented by a detailed list of literature dealing with hip-hop subculture and a list of sources referring to the Czech rap scene.
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Rock Fan as a Recipient of Marketing Communication
Palounek, Martin ; Riedlbauch, Václav (advisor) ; Stříteský, Václav (referee)
This thesis is primarily focused on collecting insights regarding rock music fan that can be applied to marketing communication. Its main aim is to describe how the rock fans are different from the major population in terms of descriptive characteristics, values, opinions and lifestyle. The points of parity and the points of difference are investigated on the level of rock sub-genres. The message, symbolism and main ideas present in rock music are examined, including historical and social context leading to the formation and development of the genre. We also tried to assign a specific archetype to rock and its sub-genres. We assume that rock fans are in some ways different from the rest of the population and that we are able to observe the differences on the level of sub-genres. However, we also expect that there are some points of parity symptomatic for all the rock genres. We suppose that artists and music marketers approach marketing communication mostly from the point of their own intuition and that they frequently use symbolism, historical references and archetypes in their way of communication. The research is comprised of three parts. First part is the analysis of secondary data from MML-TGI database by Median Research Company for year 2013. Used methodology: General analysis and cross analysis. The objective of the analysis was to determine differences between genres and subgenres in terms of descriptive characteristics, value system and verdicts about lifestyle. The next part of the research was the content analysis of notable rock album front covers for the purpose of deeper exploration of rock symbols. The last part of the research is comprised of interviews with music industry professionals who shared their opinion regarding genre characteristics, fans and marketing communication in real life.
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