Web Technologies for The Kenyan Music Industry

Music is a cornerstone of our culture, conversations, and daily lives. More than any other art form, music penetrates every moment of our day-to-day and every facet of culture. Musicians create the soundtracks for days, decades, and eras. But there’s a great rift between musicians’ position in culture and their place in the economy. In this latter world, musicians are routinely exploited, underpaid and swindled by greater forces.

At first, it was the famously predatory record companies, and today it is streaming platforms like Spotify and Apple Music. Despite every technological change of our age promising to put power back into the hands of artists, nothing seems to have changed much. Few artists own their own music and only a handful can afford to make a living off of it. So when the new technology buzzword — Web 3.0 — promises to change things again, people are right to be sceptical.