Music is the most financialized cultural industry, Hollywood close behind

Evidence

The music industry is the most financialized, as detailed in chapter 3. Hollywood is not far behind, as seen in chapter 4. Though not covered in this book, journalism and newspapers have been subject to predatory financial extraction, particularly from hedge funds, as has contemporary art, video games, and social media. — Andrew deWaard, Derivative Media, 45

Categorization

• XREF: Directly serves the reader’s aim of tracing a financial instrument to specific artistic form; the music-most-financialized claim anchors which chapter to focus on.