Call for papers: 14th International Music Business Research Days 2023

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14^th International Music Business Research Days

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Towards Sustainability in Music Business?

Balancing new business models, changing labor conditions and new competences

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November 1 – 3, 2023

Call-for-papers, 1-3 November 2023

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Music business, and the frameworks and dynamics of the music industries, continue to develop and change, with new digital innovations, new formats, new business models and new content being created. It is nothing new that music business operates within changing economic- and technological framework conditions – these are perhaps more to be considered inherent features rather than substantial shifts. Nonetheless, these changes need to be continually addressed and critically discussed.

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There’s a need for updated, interdisciplinary research to provide insights on how digital innovations affect business models, value-chains and power dynamics in the music industries. It’s critical that we discuss sustainability – both environmental, economic and artistic. We need to better understand labor conditions in music business and a better understanding of work-life balance and mental health. Not least do we need critical and updated debates on what competences are needed in the future music business, and to what extent universities and academic institutions are in step with developments. As examples, over the last three years we have experienced a pandemic with significant impact on markets and labor conditions, particularly in the live music market. We have also witnessed significant digital innovations, such as web 3 or AI, opening up a range of creative opportunities, but also some difficult discussions.

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With this backdrop, we are thrilled to invite you to the14th International Music Business Research Days 2023, which will be hosted by the Popular Music Department of the University of Agder in Kristiansand, Norway in collaboration with IMBRA – The International Music Business Research Association.

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THEMES
The International Music Business Research Days provides a platform for interdisciplinary discussion that encompasses various areas such as economics, art, culture, society, law, technology, and other developments that contribute to the different aspects of music, including creation and production, dissemination and distribution, and reception and consumption. The inclusive and interdisciplinary nature of the forum welcomes scholars from diverse scientific fields, calling for a range of research methods. We encourage submissions of papers on a broad range of themes, not limited to those mentioned below:

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DIGITAL CHANGE IN THE MUSIC INDUSTRIES
• Influence of AI tools on the music industry
• Streaming and power dynamics
• Copyright and AI
• New digital platforms such as web3, metaverse and blockchain based platforms
• Fan engagement
• Locality in globality
• Change in business models, markets and value chain

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POLICY AND LEGISLATION
• Sustainability
• Cultural policy and entrepreneurship
• Social worth as economic performance
• Commodification and capitalism
• Cross border licensing

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MUSIC BUSINESS EDUCATION AND RESEARCH
• Entrepreneurship pedagogy
• Labor conditions and new competences
• Music and health
• Curriculum in music business education
• Between business and education. How to prepare students for the music industry that is in flux?

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SUBMISSION
Please send your abstract no later than 15th of May, 2023 to imbrd@uia.no
Abstracts can be 300-500 words (any references are included in the word count) and should include:
• Objectives of the research and research question
• Brief description of the disciplinary/theoretical context/background
• Data and methods
• Main or expected conclusions / contribution

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Abstracts will be subject to a peer review process by an international jury, and authors will be notified of acceptance by June 15, 2021.

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The best papers of this conference will be considered for publication in a special issue of the International Journal of Music Business Research (IJMBR). In case you want to be eligible for this special issue, full papers should be sent before November 30th, 2023. 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). A first selection will be made after the conference by the editors, after which a double-blind peer review process is in place for these submissions.

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IMPORTANT DATES
• 15 May: Abstract submission deadline
• 15 June: Notification of acceptance
• 1-2-3 November: Conference
• 30 November: Delivery of full paper for consideration for publication

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Call-for-papers, 1-3 November 2023 (pdf version)

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Call for Papers: 13th Young Scholars’ Workshop of the International Music Business Research Days 2023

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The 14th International Music Business Research Days 2023

Call for Papers: Young Scholars’ Workshop

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The Young Scholars’ Workshop, as part of the 14th International Music Business Research Days (Kristiansand, Norway), 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.
We encourage early-stage researchers, either in the beginning of their doctorate projects, or in the beginning of their academic careers, to submit paper abstracts.

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There are many questions that call for investigation and need to be discussed in music business research, for example:

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DIGITAL CHANGE IN THE MUSIC INDUSTRIES
• Influence of AI tools on the music industry
• Streaming and power dynamics
• Copyright and AI
• New digital platforms such as web3, metaverse and blockchain based platforms
• Fan engagement
• Locality in globality
• Change in business models, markets and value chain

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POLICY AND LEGISLATION
• Sustainability
• Cultural policy and entrepreneurship
• Social worth as economic performance
• Commodification and capitalism
• Cross border licensing

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MUSIC BUSINESS EDUCATION AND RESEARCH
• Entrepreneurship pedagogy
• Labor conditions and new competences
• Music and health
• Curriculum in music business education
• Between business and education. How to prepare students for the music industry that is in flux?

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

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The workshop organizers 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.

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Abstracts (of up to 500 words) are due by June 15, 2023 and full papers (6-8000 words) are due by October 15, 2023. Only abstracts and papers submitted on time will be considered.

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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 July 10, 2023, at the latest.

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Please email your submission to imbrd@uia.no marked with YSW, 2023.

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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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Call for Papers: Young Scholars’ Workshop

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Introducing our guests: Ros Lynch (Intellectual Property Office, London)

In the 10th anniversary Vienna Music Business Research Days on the “Future of the Music Business” at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna (Anton-von-Webern-Platz 1, 1030 Vienna/Austria) music business researchers and music business professionals look into the recent past of the music industry to learn more about its future. Find the program here.

Ros Lynch of the Intellectual Property Office (IPO, London) is one of our panelist in the discussion on “The Future of Music Copyright” at mdw’s Joseph Haydn-Hall on Sep. 13th from 10:00-11:00 with Karl Ryan (Government Affairs and Public Policy, Google UK), Cliff Fluet (Lewis Silkin LLP, London, UK) and Steve Stewart (vezt, Los Angeles, USA) moderated by Sally Gross (University of Westminster, London, UK).

Ros joined the UK Intellectual Property Office (IPO) in February 2014 as Director of Copyright and IP Enforcement. As Director, Ros leads the work to shape the direction of policy and operational work in copyright and enforcement, ensuring that the UK legal framework is up-to-date and fit for purpose. The role also involves extensive international engagement both within and outside Europe. She holds a PhD in Sociology from the University of Hull and is the co-author of the report ‘Copyright Works’ with Richard Hooper CBE which recommended measures aimed at streamlining copyright licensing in the digital age.

 

 

 

 

 

Introducing our guests: Phil Graham (Universiy of the Sunshine Coast, Australia)

In the 10th anniversary Vienna Music Business Research Days on the “Future of the Music Business” at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna (Anton-von-Webern-Platz 1, 1030 Vienna/Austria) music business researchers and music business professionals look into the recent past of the music industry to learn more about its future. Find the program here.

Phil Graham will present his recent book “Music, Management, Marketing, and Law. Interviews Across the Music Business Value Chain” in Fanny Hensel-Hall at mdw – University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna on September 11, 2019 from 19:30-21:30 before he will participate in panel discussion on “Big data and the Digital Music Business” with Nermina Mumic (Legitary, Vienna), Peter Jenner (Sincere Music, London) and Daniel Nordgård (University of Agder, Norway).

On Sep. 12, Phil Graham will also present a paper entitled “Implications of the digital economy for independent musical labour Or: Global ‘craft’ economies” in track B of the Conference Track Day (Fanny Hensel-Hall) from 14:00-14:45.

Last but not least Phil is one of the discussants on the “Future of the Music Business – What’s Next after Music Streaming?” in Joseph Haydn-Hall from 16:00-17:30 on Sep. 13th with Rebecca Brook (music industry consultant, London, UK), Pete Downton (7digital, London, UK) and Michael Smellie (Start-up investor, Brisbane, Australia) moderated by Dennis Collopy (University of Hertfordshire, UK).

Phil Graham is Professor and Head of School, Creative Industries, at Australia’s University of the Sunshine Coast. Before becoming an academic, Phil made a living as a musician, composing, producing, and performing for all areas of the Creative Industries. As an academic, he has written over 120 academic papers and books, as well as producing hundreds of creative outputs as part of his research. His most recent book is Music, Management, Marketing, and Law (Springer). Phil continues to produce music for commercial contexts when time and opportunity permits.

 

 

Introducing our guests: Peter Jenner (Sincere Management, London)

In the 10th anniversary Vienna Music Business Research Days on the “Future of the Music Business” at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna (Anton-von-Webern-Platz 1, 1030 Vienna/Austria) music business researchers and music business professionals look into the recent past of the music industry to learn more about its future. Find the program here.

In an additional book presentation event the former Pink Floyd manager Peter Jenner will be a panelist on “Big Data in the Digital Music Business” in mdw’s Fanny Hensel-Hall on Sep. 11th from 19:30-21:30. Find more details about the book presentation event here. Mr. Jenner will also assist Dennis Collopy (University of Herfortshire) in presenting the results of the “Music 2025” project on Sep. 13th from 14:00-14:45 at mdw’s Joseph Haydn-Hall.

Peter is legendary in the music business. He put on a number of free concerts in London’s Hyde Park which included the 1969 concert by The Rolling Stones. He was one time manager to Pink Floyd, The Clash, Ian Dury & Billy Bragg amongst many others. Now Peter is at the forefront of the debates surrounding the digital use of music. He is President Emeritus (IMMF), former Director (UK MMF) and on the advisory board of FAC. He is also a visiting professor for the University of Hertfordshire and the University of Adger in Norway. For more details, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Jenner (not all of it accurate).

Peter Jenner was among the first guests of the 1st Vienna Music Business Research Days in 2010 and participated frequently in the following conferences. In 2018, Peter Jenner was unanimously voted by to be the first “Honorary Member” of the International Music Business Research Association (IMBRA).

 

Book presentation event on “Big Data in the Digital Music Business”

A book presentation event will take place in Fanny Hensel-Hall at mdw – University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna on September 11, 2019 from 19:30-21:30. The first two volumes of the “Music Business Research” series of Springer Publishing will be presented to public with a following panel discussion on “Big Data in the Digital Music Business”.

Daniel Nordgård of the University of Agder in Kristiansand/Norway will present his book “The Music Business and Digital Impacts. Innovations and Disruptions in the Music Industries“. The book provides rare insights into the difficult and complex dialogues between stakeholders within and outside the music industries in a time of transition. It builds on a series of recorded meetings in which key stakeholders discuss and assess options and considerations for the music industries’ transition to a digital era. These talks were closed to the public and operated under the Chatham House Rule, which means that they involved a very different type of discussion from those held in public settings, panels or conferences. As such, the book offers a much more nuanced understanding of the industries’ difficulties in adjusting to changing conditions, demonstrating the internal power-struggles and differences that make digital change so difficult.

 

Phil Graham of the University of the Sunshine Coast/Australia introduces his volume on “Music, Management, Marketing, and Law. Interviews Across the Music Business Value Chain“. This collection of interviews captures a period of historic change for the global music business along with a wealth of professional knowledge that extends from the late 1960s through to late 2012 when the interviews were conducted. They record the experiences and insights of people who helped to shape a global business that is quickly passing into history and transforming into something entirely new, often because of decisions the interviewees have been directly involved in making. The material includes the aesthetic, artistic, technical, commercial, legal, and strategic aspects of the music industry. What is said is timeless in its historical significance for the music business and in its relevance for researchers engaged in studies on the dynamics of change in the global commercial music landscape.

 

After the two short presentations the authors discuss with the music manager Peter Jenner (Sincere Music, London) and the founder and CEO of the Vienna-based data analytics company Legitary, Nermina Mumic on

“Big Data and the Digital Music Business”

Admission free, but please register here: vmbrd@mdw.ac.at

 

The book presentation event is held within the 10th Vienna Music Business Research Days in cooperation with the Austrian Chamber of Commerce

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Introducing our guests: Steve Stewart (vezt, Los Angeles)

Steve Stewart is the CEO & Co-Founder of Vezt Inc., a music-driven tech platform giving people the ability to participate in the royalties of their favorite songs. The blockchain-based app makes it easy for artists, writers, producers, labels and publishers to monetize their IP directly from music fans.

Steve has more than 20 years of professional experience in the music, tech and television industries, and is the former personal manager of multi-platinum alternative rock band Stone Temple Pilots, managing their career from their inception through their fifth major label release on Atlantic Records. Under Steve’s management, the band’s worldwide record sales exceeded 25 million records, generating more than $450 million in gross revenues. Along the way, they were awarded a Grammy, an American Music Award, numerous Billboard Music Awards, MTV Music Video and MTV Movie Awards, and a number of Pollstar, ASCAP and BMI accolades. His acts have toured with the likes of The Rolling Stones, Aerosmith, Neil Young and Cheap Trick, playing live to more than 5 million people worldwide.

As CEO of Steve Stewart Management, he has negotiated and secured lucrative major label record and publishing contracts on behalf of approximately 20 recording artists with companies such as Sony Music, Warner Bros. Records, Atlantic Records, Capitol Records, Disney’s Hollywood Records, A&M Records, Geffen Records, Elektra Records, American Records, Maverick Records, EMI Music Publishing, Famous Music Publishing, Rondor Music, Warner Chappell Music Publishing and Universal Music Publishing.

He has held COO positions at tech startups – GoYodel (retail deal bundler) and SportsBuddyz (sports video platform). As well as Head of Business Development at SURKUS (social engagement app). He has also managed and handled business development for new media personalities, including one of the Top 25 Most Viewed Channels on YouTube (“Hot For Words” 440 million views, 460,000 subscribers), creating, negotiating and securing media, sponsorship and advertising opportunities with companies such as HarperCollins, Go Daddy, Guthy-Renker, DC Shoes, among others, including a 100 episode deal with Russian television network RTV. He has secured venture funding for new media ventures in the mobile/sports/video space. Steve has produced a number of multi-million dollar national tours (800+ live shows), at most of the major arenas in the country, including Madison Square Garden, The Los Angeles Forum and San Francisco’s Shoreline Amphitheater, and worked with rapper/actor Ice T during development of the first Lollapalooza Tour.

He has also produced television programming for Comcast/DirecTV, MTV and VH-1. He was contracted to create the studio facility and production package for the Larry King Now show on Hulu and as well as Larry King’s 2012 Election live coverage for YouTube, and was supervising production assistant for Stephen J. Cannell Productions’ “21 Jump Street,” “Wise Guy,” and “Hunter”.

 

 

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

 

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/

 

 

Call-for-papers: 9th Young Scholars’ Workshop of the 10th Vienna Music Business Research Days 2019, September 11, 2019

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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The 9th Vienna Music Business Research Days in Retrospective

The 9^th Vienna Music Business Research Days on “Music Life Is Live” gathered again renown music business researchers and music business professionals at the University of Music and Performing Arts to discuss the “Political Economics of Music Festivals” and “The International Concert and Touring Business”.

The invited conference day of the Vienna Music Business Research Days 2018 was opened by the president of the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, Ulrike Sych, with a welcome address to the conference participants and the audience.