January 2019 – Music Business Research

About

The 10^th Vienna Music Business Research Days will be held at mdw – University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, Austria, from September 11 to 13, 2019.

Music Business Research is an inter-discipline at the intersection of economic, artistic, cultural, social, legal, technological and further developments which contribute to the creation/production, dissemination/ distribution and reception/consumption of music. This interdisciplinary nature calls for methodological multiplicity and is open to scholars from all scientific areas.

The conference organizers invite scholars (from the postdoctoral level on) who have a research focus on music business/industry related topics to submit a paper proposal for the conference day on September 12, 2019.

Scholarly submissions on this year’s conference theme “The Future of Music Business” are equally welcome as on other aspects of music business research.

Indicative themes include but are not limited to:

Past, current and future developments in the music industry (recorded / live / publishing / retailing / wholesaling, etc.)
Economic and historic analyses of music markets, charts or audiences
Issues in marketing and/or branding music, musicians or music institutions
Aspects of musical and musician diversity in music business
Critical discourses on the economic, social and cultural contributions of (live) music
New products, formats and business models in the music sectors
Strategies and strategizing of musicians and music institutions
Situatedness and power in musician labor markets
Agency and social practices in the music business
Legal issues in the music business (contracts, copyright, policies) from an international perspective
Fit for the market? Acquiring skills for the music business
Doing things right! New solutions for fairness and transparency in the music business
Entrepreneurial musician und music entrepreneurs
An age of disruption? Technological developments in the music industry

Submission

Please send an abstract of your proposal to vmbrdays@gmail.com no later than April 29, 2019.

All submissions must include a title, authors (names, affiliations, e-mails of all authors and a notation (*) of the corresponding author), an abstract of 1,000-1,500 words and 3-5 keywords. Abstracts must be submitted in English, as a MS Word file (*.doc or *.docx) or *.pdf file, and include:

Objectives of the research
Brief description of the disciplinary/theoretical context/background
Research questions and/or hypotheses
Methodology
Main or expected conclusions / contribution
Main references

Abstracts will be subject to a double-blind peer-review process by an international jury, and authors will be notified of acceptance by May 20, 2019.

Final papers should be sent before July 31, 2019. They should not exceed 7,000 words (including abstracts, figures, tables, references and appendices) and follow the author guidelines of the International Journal of Music Business Research (IJMBR). You may also want to consider publication in IJMBR after the conference.

Important dates

April 29, 2019 Abstract submission deadline

May 20, 2019 Notification of acceptance

July 31, 2019 Submission deadline for full papers

September 12, 2019 Conference day (paper sessions)

September 13, 2019 Conference day for invited speakers on “The Future of Music Business”

For students at all levels of the MA & PhD a doctoral colloquium (Young Scholars’ Workshop) will be held as part of the 10^th Vienna Music Business Research Days on September 11, 2019. Find a separate call for papers here.

Registration Fee

Registration (ntry.at/vmbrdays2019) will be open from May 15, 2019 to August 31,2019. There will be no refund after this date. The registration fee includes conference attendance, reception, coffee breaks and lunch on conference days as well as the Heurigen-Dinner on September 13, 2019. Discounts for students and members of IMBRA will be available!

	Full registration fee
Until July 31, 2019 (early bird)	Euro 175,-
After July 31, 2019	Euro 225,-

Contact

Dagmar Abfalter (mailto: vmbrdays@gmail.com)

Department of Cultural Management and Gender Studies (IKM)

mdw – University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna

Anton-von-Webern-Platz 1, 1030 Vienna, Austria
https://musicbusinessresearch.wordpress.com/vienna-music-business-research-days-2/

The Young Scholars’ Workshop, as part of the 10^th Vienna Music Business Research Days (Vienna, Austria), invites once again young researchers to submit paper abstracts of all disciplines exploring questions that help understand economic and managerial problems as well as processes of the music business sector and in the field of music management. There are many questions that call for investigation and need to be discussed in music business research, for example:

What drives innovation in the music business sector?
How can we scientifically understand and differentiate music business models?
What do we know about critical success factors? Have success factors changed over time – and has music business (entrepreneurship) changed in general?
What rationalities affect this very “personal” industry?
What does it mean to be self-managed in the music business?
What can we learn about the customer’s willingness to pay for music recordings or related goods?
Who will control the future music market, e.g., startups or Apple?
How can we understand the role of brands and the music industry?
And how can music business research support efforts for innovative business models?
What issues of gender, class or “race” exist in a music business context? How are they dealt with?

These research questions are not exhaustive, papers may also address other aspects.

The workshop organizers Prof. Dr. Peter Tschmuck (University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna) and Prof. Dr. Carsten Winter (Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media) strongly encourage submissions from students at all levels of MA & PhD. Students are supposed to work on their MA or PhD thesis and discuss it with senior researchers of music business research.

Abstracts (of about 1,000 characters) are due by April 29, 2019, and full papers (15-30 pages) are due by July 31, 2019. Only abstracts and papers submitted on time will be considered.

A maximum of 6-8 papers will be selected for presentation to guarantee a workshop atmosphere. The sessions will combine paper presentations and discussions including interactive elements. Information on the acceptance of the paper proposal will be sent until May 20, 2019, at the latest.

Please email your submission to youngscholars@imbra.eu

Paper proposals and final papers must be submitted as pdf documents and should include contact information, at least affiliation, e-mail address, telephone number and postal address of the author(s).

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Music Business Research

Month: January 2019

Call-for-papers: 10th Vienna Music Business Research Days, September 11-13, 2019