Call for Papers: 13th International Music Business Research Days 2022

 

13^th International Music Business Research Days

 

Parallel Worlds in the Music Industry

 

October 18 – 20, 2022

Call-for-Papers for the Conference Track Day on Ocober 19, 2022

 

About

The 13^th International Music Business Research Days will be held at mdw – University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, Austria, from October 18 to 20, 2022.

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 October 19, 2022.

Scholarly submissions on this year’s conference theme 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
• etc.

 

Submission

Please send an abstract of your proposal to musicbusinessresearch@gmail.com not later than May 31, 2022.
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 / contribution9
• 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 June 30, 2022.

Final papers should be sent before September 15, 2022. 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

May 31, 2022                Abstract submission deadline

June 30, 2022                Notification of acceptance

September 15, 2022    Submission deadline for full papers

October 19, 2022         Conference day (paper sessions)

October 20, 2022         Conference day for invited speakers on “Parallel Worlds in the Music Industry”

For students at all levels of the MA & PhD a doctoral colloquium (Young Scholars’ Workshop) will be held as part of the 13^th International Music Business Research Days on October 18, 2022. Find a separate call for papers here.

 

Registration Fee

Registration (ntry.at/vmbrdays2022) will be open from July 1, 2022 to October 20,2022. 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 October 20, 2022.

	Full registration fee
Until August 31, 2022 (early bird)	Euro 175,-
After August 31, 2022	Euro 225,-

 

Contact

mailto: musicbusinessresearch@gmail.com

mdw – University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna

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

 
 

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Call for Papers: 12th Young Scholars’ Workshop of the International Music Business Research Days 2022

The Young Scholars’ Workshop, as part of the 13^th International 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 May 31, 2022, and full papers (15-30 pages) are due by September 15, 2022. 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 June 30, 2022, 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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The 11th Vienna Music Business Research Days 2020 in retrospective

The COVID-19 pandemic made it impossible to meet for the 11th Vienna Music Business Research Days at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. Therefore the international conference on “Emerging Music Markets” went online and gathered conference guests from all around the globe to highlight the rising importance of music markets in Asia and Eastern European.

The first online event on September 21 was the 10th Anniversary Young Scholars’ Workshop, which offered a forum for junior scientists to present their master and PhD projects to renowned international music business researchers. Young scholars from Australia, Germany, Spain, Sweden and the Netherlands discussed their findings with their mentors’ and other workshop participants. At the end of the conference Laura Weinert of the Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media was rewarded for the Young Scholars’ Workshop best paper entitled “Music in the mediatised everyday life of young people”. Her contribution is considered to be published in the International Journal of Music Business Research (IJMBR).

The Conference Track Day on September 22 gathered music business researchers from Australia, Austria, Germany, the Netherlands and Sweden, who presented their research findings on a broad range of music business topics, such as digital ecosystems for micro music businesses, the role of fandom in artist promotion, the power of reputation of festival directors, the digital transformation of value creation in the music business and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on music consumption and the live music scene in Germany (see program).

The online conference continued on September 23 with the Invited Conference Day focusing on the main conference topic “Emerging Music Markets”. Bernie Cho, President of the Seoul-based artist & label services agency DFSB Kollective, gave a keynote on the “Hip Hype Reality of the Korean Music Market” and highlighted the hugh economic impact of K-Pop for the Korean but also international music markets. Philipp Grefer, who is the founder of the Beijing-based Future-Think-Tank WISE explained it the next keynote how the Chinese music market developed from more or less nothing into the seventh largest recorded music market worldwide. In the following talk, Achille Forler, who is the managing director of the Indian-based sound design agency Music Curator and member of the advisory board of the Indian Performing Right Society, highlighted the specifities of the Indian music market that is still dominated by the big Bollywood film companies. They all joined Weining Hung, co-founder of the LUCfest in Tainan/Taiwan for the panel discussion on “Emerging Music Markets in Asia” and discussed the growing economic but also cultural impact of Asia in the global music market and music industry.

The virtual afternoon conference session was devoted to Eastern European music markets. Dartsya Tarkovska, founder of music consulting agency Soundbuzz and co-founder of Music Export Ukraine, explained how the Ukrainian recorded music industry is structured and analysed the music streaming market in the Ukraine. Ania Kasperek, who founded the all-female Chimes Agency in Poland, highlighted then the specifities of the Polish music market, before Carina Sava of the Agentia de Vise in Bucharest showed how the Romanian music market works. In the following panel discussion on “Emerging Music Markets in Eastern Europe”, all three speakers highlighted again the differences and similarities of music markets in Central and Eastern Europe and discussed the future potential of these markets.

 

Introducing our guests: Ania Kasperek (Chimes Agency, Poland)

In times of the COVID-19 crisis it’s impossible to have an international conference with guests from all around the world in Vienna. Therefore, the 11th Vienna Music Business Research Days on “Emerging Music Markets” will be held as an online conference only. Nevertheless we will have exciting conference guests from Asian as well as Eastern European countries to highlight the specifities of emerging music markets in these regions. Find the program (Central European Summertime) here.

Ania Kasperek (Chimes Agency, Poland) gives a short presentation on the Polish music market on Zoom on Sep. 23, from 14:20-14:40 (CEST) and will then join the virtual panel discussion on “Emerging Eastern European Music Markets” with Dartsya Tarkovska (Soundbuzz & Music Export Ukraine, Kiev) and Carina Sava (Agentia de Vise, Bucharest, Romania.

Ania is a manager with a demonstrated history of working in the Music Industry. Skilled in Artist Management, Music Business, Digital Strategy and International Strategy. Strong arts and business professional. Works hands-on with talent, plans and executes strategy, builds and manages teams around artists. Co-founder of all-female Chimes agency – artist management & consulting agency supporting artists & brands in strategy development and implementation. Part of Balance It Out talent development collective. Currently heads management teams for Hildur (IS), Wojtek (PL) and Reuben Gray (UK). Additionally, Ania is among the co-founders and serves as Operations Manager at European Music Managers Alliance (EMMA).

 

 

Introducing our guests: Philipp Grefer (WISE, Beijing, China)

In times of the COVID-19 crisis it’s impossible to have an international conference with guests from all around the world in Vienna. Therefore, the 11th Vienna Music Business Research Days on “Emerging Music Markets” will be held as an online conference only. Nevertheless we will have exciting conference guests from Asian as well as Eastern European countries to highlight the specifities of emerging music markets in these regions. Find the program (Central European Summertime) here.

Philipp Grefer (WISE, Beijing, China) gives a keynote talk on the “Music Market in China” on September 23, 10:15-11:00 (CEST) and will then join the virtual panel discussion on “Emerging Music Markets in Asia” with Weining Hung (LUCfest, Tainan, Taiwan), Bernie Cho (DFSB Kollective, Seoul, South Korea) and Achille Forler (Music Curator and The Indian Performing Right Society, Mumbia, India).

In 2018 Philipp Grefer founded WISE – The Future Think Tank, (www.wisenotwise.com) in Beijing, bringing together thought leaders of the creative industries, science and tech to discuss how we will and should live in the Future.

He has been at the forefront of China´s music and events industry for over a decade – the only German and one of the few Westerners with such a deep experience in China’s music industry.

Since he first visited China in 2007 for the Midi Festival, he has worked at one of the world´s largest events, the EXPO 2010 Shanghai for German government institution GIZ, and co-founded his own music & creative agency / label FakeMusicMedia (FMM) / FakeLoveMusic (FLM)

He brought over 300 artists and speakers to China since (e.g Die Toten Hosen, Hot Chip, Royksopp) and has managed some of China´s best talents. Philipp has authored several reports about the Chinese Music Industry and consulted & curated for various brands and government organizations and is author of The China Music Industry Report.

He is fascinated by the possibilities of AI & VR for the creative sector and DJs sometimes under his moniker Metro Tokyo.

He holds a master in International Relations / Economics which he studied alongside Latin American Studies in Cologne and San Diego. Before coming to China he worked as a freelance journalist at Germany´s biggest broadcaster.

 

Introducing our guests: Weinig Hung (LUCfest, Tainan, Taiwan)

In times of the COVID-19 crisis it’s impossible to have an international conference with guests from all around the world in Vienna. Therefore, the 11th Vienna Music Business Research Days on “Emerging Music Markets” will be held as an online conference only. Nevertheless we will have exciting conference guests from Asian as well as Eastern European countries to highlight the specifities of emerging music markets in these regions. Find the program (Central European Summertime) here.

Weining Hung (LUCfest, Tainan, Taiwan) is one of the discussants in the panel on “Emerging Music Markets in Asia” with Bernie Cho (DFSB Kollective, Seoul, South Korea), Achille Forler (Music Curator and  The Indian Performing Right Society, Mumbai, India) and Philipp Grefer (WISE, Beijing, China) on September 23 from 12:00-13:00 (CEST).

Weining Hung is the co-founder of LUCfest, a three-day showcase festival and conference in Tainan, Taiwan. She has always been a force for getting Asian musicians into European market. She is also the international manager for emerging artists like Phum Viphurit and ADOY. All over the years, she develops good knowledge of music market, especially Asia and Europe. Nowadays, Weining splits her time between Asia and Europe and passionate about stimulating networking activities and building Asian music industry platform.

 

 

11th Vienna Music Business Research Days on “Emerging Music Markets”

The 11th Vienna Music Business Research Days on “Emerging Music Markets” will be held as an online only conference in times of the global COVID-19 crisis. Nevertheless we will have guests from all over the world to talk and discuss on emerging music markets in Asia and Eastern Europe.

 

Join the Zoom-conference here: ZOOM-LINK TO THE VIENNA MUSIC BUSINESS RESEARCH DAYS 2020

 

or stream us on:

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ViennaMusicBusinessResearchDays/

and YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSQ_kzb0cbCThmPLpGYNM6A

The conference day on September 23 will be also live video-streamed from 9:00-16:30 CEST at mdw’s Mediathek: https://live.mdw.ac.at/

 

The morning sessions of the conference day on September 23 will highlight the specifities of several booming Asian music markets. Bernie Cho from the DFSB Kollective in Seoul/South Korea will talk about the South Korean music market and the economic relevanve of K-Pop. In the following sesssion the founder of Fake Music Media, which organizes the WISE Festival in Beijing, Philipp Grefer, highlights the network of the Chinese music industry and music market. The music market in India, which is still driven by the Bollywood film studios, will be analyzed by Achille Forler from the Indian-based sound design agency Music Curator and The Indian Performing Right Society in Mumbai. All three speakers will then discuss with Weining Hung, founder and organizer of the LUCfest in Tainan/Taiwan on “Emerging Music Markets in Asia”.

In the afternoon of September 23, Carina Sava (Agentia de Vise, Bucharest/Romania), Ania Kasperek (Chimes Agency, Poland) and Dartsya Tarkowska (Soundbuzz & Music Export Ukraine, Kiev) will highlight the specifities of the music markets in Romania, Poland and the Ukraine in short presentions in order discuss the economic relevance and future development of “Emerging Eastern European Music Markets”.

The Vienna Music Business research Days will be opened on Sep. 21^th with the Young Scholars’ Workshop for master and PhD students to present their research to renown music business researchers in a closed online workshop.

On Sep. 22^th music business researchers from all around the world will present their findings on different music business/industry topics (see program).

 

Join the Zoom-conference here: ZOOM-LINK TO THE VIENNA MUSIC BUSINESS RESEARCH DAYS 2020

 

or stream us on:

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ViennaMusicBusinessResearchDays/

and YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSQ_kzb0cbCThmPLpGYNM6A

The conference day on September 23 will be also live video-streamed from 9:00-16:30 CEST at mdw’s Mediathek: https://live.mdw.ac.at/

Introducing our guests: Bernie Cho (DFSB Kollective, Seoul, South Korea)

In times of the COVID-19 crisis it’s impossible to have an international conference with guests from all around the world in Vienna. Therefore, the 11th Vienna Music Business Research Days on “Emerging Music Markets” will be held as an online conference only. Nevertheless we will have exciting conference guests from Asian as well as Eastern European countries to highlight the specifities of emerging music markets in these regions. Find the program (Central European Summertime) here.

Bernie Cho (DFSB Kollective, Seoul, South Korea) will talk about the “Music Market in South Korea” and the economic impact of K-Pop on September 23, 09:15-10:00 (CEST) and will then join the onlinel panel discussion on “Emerging Music Markets in Asia” with Weining Hung (LUCfest, Tainan, Taiwan), Achille Forler (Music Curator and  The Indian Performing Right Society, Mumbai, India) and Philipp Grefer (WISE, Beijing, China).

Bernie Cho is the President of DFSB Kollective, a Seoul-based Artist & Label Services agency that specializes in providing digital media, marketing, and distribution solutions to 600+ Korean Pop music artists. As more K-Pop acts aspire to go independent and international, DFSB Kollective collaborates with artists and their management companies to devise customized strategies that directly connect them to their local and global fans. Since 2009, the agency has successfully produced numerous K-Pop concerts and showcases in North America, Asia, and Europe as well as secured #1 Apple iTunes Music chart debuts for various K-Pop albums in the US, Canada, Japan, Korea, Greater China, Australasia, Southeast Asia, and Europe.

In order to raise the recognition of Korean music internationally, DFSB Kollective is a member of Merlin Network (global digital music rights agency for world’s leading independent labels) and an official Korean content provider for Apple iTunes Music, Spotify, Amazon, YouTube Music, Deezer, TIDAL, Pandora, iHeart Radio, Facebook, TikTok, Tencent Music, NetEase, KKBox, AWA, JioSaavn, Boomplay, and Yandex.

As one of the first and foremost K-Pop music exporters, DFSB Kollective and its artists have been featured speakers/performers at top international music industry events (CMJ, CMW, SXSW, Coachella, The Great Escape, Glastonbury, Summer Sonic, Music Matters, MusicBiz, MIDEM) and profiled in leading international media outlets (BBC, Billboard, Bloomberg, CNN, Discovery, E!, Forbes, Monocle, MTV, Newsweek, New York Times, NPR, Pitchfork, Spin, Time, Wall Street Journal).

Prior to founding DFSB Kollective, Bernie served as the Head of MTV Korea’s Digital Media Production and worked for nearly 2 decades in the Korean music TV industry as a Creative Planner, Program Producer, and Show Host. He has earned a BA from Dartmouth College in Government/Asian Studies and has graduated from the UCLA Anderson School of Management (Executive Entertainment & Media Program) and the Vancouver Film School (Foundation Film Program).

 

 

Introducing our guests: Carina Sava (Agentia de Vise, Bucharest, Romania)

In times of the COVID-19 crisis it’s impossible to have an international conference with guests from all around the world in Vienna. Therefore, the 11th Vienna Music Business Research Days on “Emerging Music Markets” will be held as an online conference only. Nevertheless we will have exciting conference guests from Asian as well as Eastern European countries to highlight the specifities of emerging music markets in these regions. Find the program (Central European Summertime) here.

Carina Sava (Agentia de Vise, Bucharest, Romania) gives a short presentation on the Romanian music market on Zoom on Sep. 23, from 14:00-14:20 (CEST) and will then join the virtual panel discussion on “Emerging Eastern European Music Markets” with Dartsya Tarkovska (Soundbuzz & Music Export Ukraine, Kiev) and Ania Kasperek (Chimes Agency, Poland).

Carina Sava is an Artist Manager at Agentia de Vise, a Bucharest based artist development agency that manages all aspects of their artists’ careers including writing, recording, touring, publishing, brand partnerships, merchandise, endorsements, theatre, television and publicity. Agentia de Vise’s roster includes established artists such as VAMA and VUNK – top Romanian pop rock bands and Tudor Chirila – actor and musician.

Carina is a founding member of Romanian Artist Worldwide Association and the Conference Program Manager of Mastering the Music Business (MMB), the leading Romanian music conference and showcase event that takes place every year in March in Bucharest.

 

 

Introducing our guests: Dartsya Tarkovska (Soundbuzz and Music Export Ukraine, Kiev)

In times of the COVID-19 crisis it’s impossible to have an international conference with guests from all around the world in Vienna. Therefore, the 11th Vienna Music Business Research Days on “Emerging Music Markets” will be held as an online conference only. Nevertheless we will have exciting conference guests from Asian as well as Eastern European countries to highlight the specifities of emerging music markets in these regions. Find the program (central European summertime) here.

Dartsya Tarkovska (Soundbuzz and Music Export Ukraine, Kiev) gives a short presentation on the Ukrainian music market on Zoom on Sep. 23, from 14:40-15:00 (CEST) and will then join the virtual panel discussion on “Emerging Eastern European Music Markets” with Carina Sava (Agentia de Vise, Bucharest, Romania) and Ania Kasperek (Chimes Agency, Poland).

Dartsya Tarkovska is the founder of music consulting agency Soundbuzz and co-founder of Music Export Ukraine.

Soundbuzz is the first music consulting agency focused on development of independent music scene in CIS countries. Starting as a music digital agency and promoting music through the Internet, today Soundbuzz is known because of educational and music business events held online and offline. The latest project is dedicated to the research of Ukrainian music industry which will be available in the fall 2020.

Music Export Ukraine is an independent initiative, which helps Ukrainian emerging artists to establish connections, promote their music, develop career and talent on the international level. The main activities include artist support, cross-sector collaborations, international exchange programs, educational events, along with the only one export oriented music conference and showcase MCU in Kyiv.