Beruflich Dokumente
Kultur Dokumente
The data
Information collected through:
the interviews to punk musicians, producers, editors and punk
fans;
documents gathered during the research (press documents,
fanzines, records, photos, flyers, posters) and provided by
many of the interviewed;
Data bases built through the analysis of these multiple sources of
information and documents;
General Assumptions
1.In Portugal, punk made its appearance more or less
simultaneously with the United Kingdom (UK) or the
United States (US) scenes the first punk bands appeared
in the late 1970s (Guerra, 2014).
General Assumptions:
3. In the middle of the 1970s, the Portuguese record edition field was
embryonic 2 big national companies controlled the Portuguese
General Assumptions:
5. The consolidation of the Portuguese record edition field was
very late, completed at the beginning of the 1990s the new
copyright law and international copyright conventions where
then implemented and the 5 majors established their own
offices at the country (Abreu, 2010);
6. The Portuguese records sells grew during this decade, but the
Portuguese market was very small (the more successful discs
sold 150.000 units, but most of them did not sell more than
10.000 to 20.000) (Abreu, 2010);
2012
2010
2008
2006
2004
2002
2000
1998
1996
1994
1992
1990
1988
1986
1984
1982
1980
1978
1976
130
120
110
100
90
80
70
60
50
40
30
20
10
0
13,7
14,5
65,0
Cassette
CD
Vinyl
200
150
100
50
Album / LP /
Full Length
Compilations
1970
Demo
1980
Single
1990
2000
EP
2010
DVD
Labels (%)
Others
Authors edition
Other-countries labels
National Labels
Majors (EMI/VC; Polygram, BMG, SONY,
MCA, Universal)
0,0
10,0
20,0
30,0
40,0
50,0
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