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Start Making Sense

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In this second section, focus will be given the Kristiansand Roundtable Conference and the dialogues and data that this book builds upon. Throughout this part, extracts and quotations will be taken from conferences to exemplify and illustrate issues that will be further discussed in the text. The Kristiansand Roundtable Conference provides a rare opportunity to follow the difficult discussions among key stakeholders within and outside the music industries, as they try to make sense of the current situation, the different options on the table, as well as the opposing and conflicting agendas. The dialogues and discussions display a complex matrix of different interests and agendas, illuminating a variety of problems relating to digitalization in the music industries. It also represents a landscape in transition, as power-dynamics shift and the logics that previously underpinned the music industries looks less certain in. Hence an articulated objective for the very Conference being to make sense of things, to reach some agreement on what the world looks like, and how to proceed from there.