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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13th International Music Business Research Days in Retrospective

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After the Poplive! project team of the Erasmus University Rotterdam had successfully organized the International Music Business Research Days 2021, the conference took place again this year at the mdw – University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna. Based on the main topic of the partner conference – Parallel Societies – this year’s talks and discussions focused on “Parallel Worlds in the Music Industry” on 20 October 2022.

On the morning of the third day of the conference, Beate Flath from the University of Paderborn dealt with the “New Virtual Worlds for Music”. Based on case studies such as the avatar artist Hatsune Miku, the ABBA Voyage Music Hall in London and the concert performances of musicians in the video game Fortnite, Beate Flath showed that these virtual music applications are by no means parallel worlds, but are extensions or supplements to real music life. A kind of parallel world was also created by the numerous lockdowns during the COVID 19 pandemic in the past two years. The manifold effects of the pandemic are discussed in the recently published anthology “Rethinking the Music Business”, which was presented by Guy Morrow from the University of Melbourne. The subsequent panel discussion with Guy Morrow, Beate Flath, Zarja Peters and Daniel Nordgård referred to both the new virtual music worlds and the book presentation and tried to trace new developments in music business.

The afternoon, which was also the kick-off event for the conference “Parallel Societies” of IASMP-DACH and the Society for Popular Music Research (GfPM), was entirely dedicated to the topic “Parallel Worlds of Music Streaming”. Hyojung Sun (University of York) and David Hesmondhalgh (University of Leeds) addressed current developments in the music streaming economy in their presentations. Hyojung Sun’s keynote, entitled “Asset Economy in the Music Streaming Business”, focused on the current acquisitions of music catalogues by the music majors and new players such as the Hipgnosis Songs Fund. David Hesmondhalgh went on to show how the algorithms of music recommendation systems not only determine music selection, but can also foster social inequalities. These effects of the music streaming economy were then discussed in detail by the two keynote speakers with the Vienna-based musician Yasmo and the founder of the label collective Analogsoul, Fabian Schütze, under the direction of Hannes Tschürtz (ink music).

On the previous day, October 19, the Conference Track Day took place, in which researchers from Australia, Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden and the USA presented and discussed current results of music industry and business research. Among the topics were the production network perspective in the music industry, the functioning of netlabels, the Internet of Musical Things, the live music industry in the Netherlands and the role of blockchain technology and NFTs in the music business.

The 13th International Music Business Research Days traditionally kicked off on the first day – October 18 – with the Young Scholars’ Workshop, in which PhD and master students from Canada, Trinidad & Tobago, the USA and the UK presented their projects and discussed them with mentors. The presentation of the Best Paper Award, this time to Farley J. Joseph from the University of the West Indies/Trinidad & Tobago for his paper entitled “Sustaining innovation: Online concert models in a post-COVID-19 Trinidad & Tobago”, amarked the end of the conference on October 20.

Introducing our guests: Fabian Schütze (Analogsoul, Leipzig/Germany)

Fabian Schütze is our panelist in the discussion on “Parallel Worlds of Music Streaming” with Hyojung Sun (University of York, UK), Yasmo (musician, Vienna, Austria) and David Hesmondhalgh (University of Leeds, UK) from 15:00-16:00 on October 20 in Joseph Haydn Hall at mdw – University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna.

He is the founder of the creative collective Analogsoul in 2008, toured as an artist himself for years, but has always been more interested in the business part of the venture. Today his boutique agency Golden Ticket takes care of Martin Kohlstedt, CATT, SALOMEA, Black Sea Dahu and Max Prosa in booking and management. Fab is part of the Regional Council East of the VUT – the german association of independent music companies and cooperates in a variety of projects with partners like Kick The Flame, recordJet, Believe, Broken Silence, listenrecords, Greenhouse Talent and many more. His music business newsletter and the corresponding magazine “Low Budget High Spirit” are among the most read in the german speaking part of the industry. He also consults high profile independent musicians and projects on brand building, strategy and digital marketing. Fab lives and works in Leipzig, Germany.

More via https://lowbudgethighspirit.com/

Introducing our guests: Daniel Nordgård (University of Agder, Norway)

Photo: Jørund Pedersen 2021

Daniel Nordgård is the co-editor of the recently published book Rethinking the Music Business, which will be be presented by him along with Guy Morrow (University of Melbourne) in the conference’s morning session of October 20, 2022 at mdw – University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna.

Daniel Nordgård is associate professor at the University of Agder and also the author of the book The Music Business and Digital Impacts (2018). He has a broad background from music, foremost as musician and artist, but also has experience from concert promotion and festival management. Nordgård teaches music business and management at the University of Agder. His research is very much devoted to the music industry and the cultural industries, with a special emphasis on digital change. Nordgård holds several positions in different boards, nationally and internationally, including Gramo (Norwegian collecting society for neighboring rights), The Norwegian Film Institute, Gramart (The Norwegian featured artist organization). He also sits on the board of the International Music Business Research Association (IMBRA).

Introducing our guest: Beate Flath (University of Paderborn, Germany)

Photo credit: Harald Morsch

Beate Flath is our keynote speaker on “New Virtual Worlds for Music” on October 20 in the 13th International Music Business Research Days at the mdw – University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna and she will also join the following morning panel on “Rethinking the Music Business” with Guy Morrow (University of Melbourne, Australia), Zaria Peters (IESA Paris, France) and Daniel Nordgård (University of Agder, Norway).

Prof. Dr. Beate Flath studied musicology, art history, and business administration at the University of Graz, where she also received her doctoral degree in musicology. She conducted research at the University of Graz, the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, and Paderborn University. Since 2021, she has been a Professor of Event Management with a focus on pop music cultures and digital media cultures at Paderborn University. Her research interests are transdisciplinary event studies, socio-political and cultural-political dimensions of event management, co-creation and participation in the context of digital media, and music business research as music culture research.

Selection of latest publications:

Beate Flath, Christoph Jacke & Manuel Troike (eds.) (2022), Transformational POP. Transitions, Breaks, and Crises in Popular Music (Studies) (~Vibes – The IASPM D-A-CH Series 2)

Beate Flath & Christoph Jacke (eds.) (2022), PopEventKulturen zwischen Management und Politik. Transdisziplinäre Perspektiven, Bielefeld: transcript

Beate Flath, Ina Heinrich, Christoph Jacke, Heinrich Klingmann & Maryam Momen Pour Tafreshi (eds.) (2022), Druckwellen. Eskalationskulturen und Kultureskalationen in Pop, Gesellschaft und Politik, Bielefeld: transcript

Beate Flath & Maryam Momen Pour Tafreshi (2021), Work-related practices of local managers of live music events in Ostwestfalen-Lippe (OWL) and their impact on cultural participation. Arts and the Market, Vol. 11, No. 2, 109-122.

Further information: www.beateflath.net

13th International Music Business Research Days 2022 on “Parallel Worlds in the Music Industry”

 

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

 

Conference program 2022

 

Conference live stream for October 20, 2022

 

Registration & Ticketing

 

October 18: Young Scholars Workshop (14:00 – 17:30), Department of Cultural Management and Gender Studies (IKM)

 

October 19: Conference Track Day (09:00 – 17:30), Joseph Haydn-Hall & Fanny Hensel-Hall

 

October 20: Invited Conference Day, Joseph Haydn-Hall

10:00-10:15:   Welcome

10:15-11:00:   Keynote on “New Virtual Worlds for Music” by Beate Flath (University of Paderborn, Germany)

11:00-11:30: Refreshments

11:30-13:00: Book presentation and panel discussion on “Rethinking the Music Business” with Beate Flath (University of Paderborn, Germany), Zarja Peters (musician, IESA Paris, France), Guy Morrow (University of Melbourne, Australia), Daniel Nordgård (University of Agder, Norway) conducted by Peter Tschmuck (University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, Austria)

13:00-14:00: Lunch Break

14:00-14:45: Keynote on “Parallel Worlds of Music Streaming” by Dave Hesmondhalgh (University of Leeds, UK) & Hyojung Sun (University of York, UK)

14:45-15:00: Refreshments

15:00-16:00: Panel discussion on “Parallel Worlds of Music Streaming?” with Dave Hesmondhalgh (University of Leeds, UK), Hyojung Sun (University of York, UK), Fabian Schütze (analogsoul, Leipzig, Germany), Yasmo (musician, Vienna, Austria) conducted by Hannes Tschürtz (ink Music, Vienna, Austria)

 

16:00: Awarding best paper of Young Scholars’ Workshop & Closing

 

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”

 

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/

 
 
 

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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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).