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.

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9th Vienna Music Business Research Days 2018 on “Music Life Is Live”

The 9th Vienna Music Business Research Days 2018 on “Music Life Is Live” start tomorrow with the Young Scholars’ Workshop (closed event for students). All events on Sep. 13 and 14 in Joseph Haydn-Hall at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna will be the open to the public.

Check the program here:

https://musicbusinessresearch.wordpress.com/vienna-music-business-research-days-2/

and buy tickets here: https://ntry.at/vmbrdays/performances/7800?l=de

If you cannot make it to the conference,, there will be live video stream of the Invited Conference Day (September 14) starting at 9am (CEST) on our Facebook page:

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Introducing our guests: Beate Flath (University of Paderborn)

“Music Life Is Live” is the main topic of the 9^th Vienna Music Business Research Days from Sep. 12-14, 2018. In presentations and discussions music business representatives and music business researchers focus this time on the political economy of music festivals and the economics of the international concert and touring business. Find the program here.

Beate Flath gives the morning keynote on “The Political Economics of Music Festivals” on September 14 from 9:15-9:45 in Joseph Haydn-Hall at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna and then moderates a panel discussion with Axel Ballreich (LiveKomm, Hamburg) Hannah Crepaz (Osterfestival Tirol, Austria), Peter Smidt (Eurosonic Noorderslag Festival, Netherlands), Martin Cloonan (University of Turku , Finland), Detlef Schwarte (Reeperbahn Festival Hamburg, Germany)

Jun.-Prof. Dr. Beate Flath studied musicology, art history and business administration at the University of Graz, Austria. Since 2015 she is junior professor for event management at Paderborn University, Germany; Current publication (in progress): Beate Flath, Martin Cloonan & Adam Behr (eds.) IASPM-journal – Special Issue: Pop music festivals and (cultural) policies (9/1, 2019), More information: www.beateflath.net.

 

 

Introducing our guests: Axel Ballreich (LiveKomm and Concertbüro Franken)

“Music Life Is Live” is the main topic of the 9^th Vienna Music Business Research Days from Sep. 12-14, 2018. In presentations and discussions music business representatives and music business researchers focus this time on the political economy of music festivals and the economics of the international concert and touring business. Find the program here.

Besides Martin Cloonan (University of Turku, Finland), Hannah Crepaz (Osterfestival Tirol, Austria), Detlef Schwarte (Reeperbahn Festival Hamburg, Germany) and Peter Smidt (Eurosonic Noorderslag, The Netherlands) Axel Ballreich is a participant in the panel discussion of “The Political Economics of Music Festivals” moderated by Beate Flath on September 14 from 9:45-11:15 in Joseph Haydn-Hall at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna.

Axel Ballreich studied sociology and finished his diploma in 1987 in Bamberg. He is promoting concerts since 1982 and is running two music clubs in Nuremburg, the Hirsch with a capacity of 700 and the Löwensaal with a capacity of 1,500. He has also promoted more than a dozen open air festivals in North Bavaria with his promoting and booking agency Concertbüro Franken. Axel Ballreich is also the co-founder and one of the CEOs of the Hamburg-based LiveMusikKommission (LiveKomm), an umbrella organization representing more than 450 music clubs and festivals in 100 German towns and municipalities.

 

 

Introducing our guests: Ernst L. Hartz (E. L. Hartz Promotion, Bonn)

“Music Life Is Live” is the main topic of the 9^th Vienna Music Business Research Days from Sep. 12-14, 2018. In presentations and discussions music business representatives and music business researchers focus this time on the political economy of music festivals and the economics of the international concert and touring business. Find the program here.

Ernst L. Hartz is a participant of the panel discussion on “The International Concert and Touring Business” with Jake Beaumont-Nesbitt (International Music Managers Forum, London, UK), Harry Jenner (Frequency Festival, Austria) and Peter Jenner (Sincere Music, London, UK) moderated by Berthold Seliger from 16:15-17:30 in Joseph Haydn-Hall at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna.

Ernst-Ludwig Hartz is promoting concerts and festivals since 40 years. As a local promoter he worked with Rage against the Machine, Pink Floyd, U2, Tine Turner, Michael Jackson, Johnny Cash, Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, Genesis, Peter Gabriel, Page & Plant, Roxy Music, Coldplay or Eminem to name just a few.

One of his festivals was the Bizarre Festival (1987-2002) – the first big alternative festival in Germany. Bands like the Foo Fighters, Beck, Iggy Pop, Rammstein, die Ärzte, die Toten Hosen, The Chemical Brothers, Korn or Faith No More played at the event.

Since 2012 with his partner Martin Nötzel he has build an open air site in the Beethoventown Bonn-Kunst!Rasen – a 9,000 capacity venue which saw artists like Lou Reed, Bob Dylan, Patti Smith, Santana, Gov’t Mule, Jan Delay & Disko No 1, BAP, Limp Bizkit, ZAZ or Deichkind. His latest coup were three shows at Roncalliplatz in Cologne(near the cathedral) which saw this summer sold out shows with Van Morrison, Patti Smith and Joan Baez.

 

 

 

Introducing our guests: Berthold Seliger (Konzertagentur Seliger, Berlin)

“Music Life Is Live” is the main topic of the 9^th Vienna Music Business Research Days from Sep. 12-14, 2018. In presentations and discussions music business representatives and music business researchers focus this time on the political economy of music festivals and the economics of the international concert and touring business. Find the program here.

On September 14, Berthold Seliger (Konzertagentur Seliger, Berlin) holds a keynote on “Empire business or cultural diversity. About the reality of the concert business” from 14:00-14:45 in Joseph Haydn-Hall at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. He is also moderating the panel discussion on “The International Concert and Touring Business” with Jake Beaumont-Nesbitt (International Music Managers Forum, London, UK), Ernst L. Hartz (E. L. Hartz Promotion Bonn, Germany), Harry Jenner (Frequency Festival, Austria), Peter Jenner (Sincere Music, London, UK) from 16:15-17:30 in Haydn-Hall.

Berthold Seliger is European agent and German tour promoter for more than 30 years. He is also writing books about the business with music (“Das Geschäft mit der Musik”, 2013, 7^th edition; “Klassikkampf”, 2017, 2^nd edition), and his essays on cultural, musical and political issues are regularly published in newspapers and magazines in Germany, Austria and Switzerland (Berliner Zeitung, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Jungle World, Konkret, Versorgerin and others). He is doing lecture shows on these topics from Berlin to Beijing (www.bseliger.de).

 

 

 

 

Introducing our guests: Carsten Winter (Hanover Universiy of Music, Drama and Media)

“Music Life Is Live” is the main topic of the 9^th Vienna Music Business Research Days from Sep. 12-14, 2018. In presentations and discussions music business representatives and music business researchers focus this time on the political economy of music festivals and the economics of the international concert and touring business. Find the program here.

Carsten Winter gives a short presentation with Detlef Schwarte on “Music Festival Conferences as Live Incubators of the Music Industry” within the panel discussion “The Political Economics of Music Festivals” with Hannah Crepaz (Osterfestival Tirol, Austria), Martin Cloonan (University of Turku , Finland) and Peter Smidt (Eurosonic Noorderslag, The Netherlands) on September 14 from 9:45-11:15 in Joseph Haydn-Hall at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna.

Carsten Winter is Full Professor of Media and Music Management at the Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media (Germany). He researches media and culture histories, transformations and conjunctures, (strategic) media and music management, music networks and cities. His more than twenty books include Cultural Studies (with R. Bromley and U. Göttlich, 1999), Die Cultural Studies Kontroverse (with A. Hepp, The Cultural Studies controversy, 2003), Konvergenz und Medienwirtschaft (with M. Karmasin – Convergence and Media Economy, 2006), Connectivity, Network and Flows. Conceptualizing Contemporary Communications (with A. Hepp, F. Krotz and Sh. Moores, 2008). Carsten Winter is Dean of Students for all scientific programs (incl. Phd-Programs) of the Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media, Director of the MA Program “Media and Music”, one of the editors of the International Journal of Music Business Research (IJMBR), and elected Board Member of the International Music Business Research Association (IMBRA).

Find an abstract of the short presentation here.

Introducing our guests: Harry Jenner (Frequency Festival)

“Music Life Is Live” is the main topic of the 9^th Vienna Music Business Research Days from Sep. 12-14, 2018. In presentations and discussions music business representatives and music business researchers focus this time on the political economy of music festivals and the economics of the international concert and touring business. Find the program here.

Harry Jenner (Frequency Festival, Austria) is one of the discussants of the panel on “The International Concert and Touring Business” moderated by Berthold Seliger (Seliger Konzertagentur, Berlin) on September 14 from 16:15-17:30. Other panelists are Peter Jenner (Sincere Management, London), who organized a number of free concerts in London’s Hyde Park which included the 1969 concert by The Rolling Stones and Jake Beaumont-Nesbitt (International Music Managers Forum, London).

Harry Jenner is is the founder and organizer of the Frequency Festival, which is one of the largest music festival in Austria with more than 200,000 visitors on four days in 2018. This year the Frequency line-up included the Gorillaz, Macklemore, Kygo and many other national and international acts. He is also the co-founder and co-organizer of the Nova Rock Festival and a shareholder of the Barracuda Holding which promotes the largest music festivals and hundreds of concerts in Austria each year.

 

 

Introducing our guests: Martin Cloonan (University of Turku)

“Music Life Is Live” is the main topic of the 9^th Vienna Music Business Research Days from Sep. 12-14, 2018. In presentations and discussions music business representatives and music business researchers focus this time on the political economy of music festivals and the economics of the international concert and touring business. Find the program here.

Martin Cloonan is a participant on the panel “The Political Economics of Music Festivals” with Axel Ballreich (LiveKomm, Hamburg), Hannah Crepaz (Osterfestival Tirol, Austria), Detlef Schwarte (Reeperbahn Festival Hamburg, Germany) and Peter Smidt (Eurosonic Noorderslag, The Netherlands) on September 14 from 9:45-11:15 in Joseph Haydn-Hall at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna.

He is Director of the Turku Institute for Advanced Studies (TIAS) at the University of Turku, Finland. His research interests focus on the political economy of the music industries and he is a founder a Director of Live Music Exchange (www.livemusicexchange.org), the online portal for research in to the live music industry.. The author of numerous publications, Martin’s most recent book was Players’ Work Time: “A History of the British Musicians’ Union, 1893-2013“, co-authored with John Williamson and published by Manchester University Press (2016).

 

 

Introducing our guests: Detlef Schwarte (Reeperbahn Festival Hamburg)

“Music Life Is Live” is the main topic of the 9^th Vienna Music Business Research Days from Sep. 12-14, 2018. In presentations and discussions music business representatives and music business researchers focus this time on the political economy of music festivals and the economics of the international concert and touring business. Find the program here.

Detlef Schwarte gives a short presentation with Professor Carsten Winter on “Music Festival Conferences as Live Incubators of the Music Industry” within the panel discussion “The Political Economics of Music Festivals” with Hannah Crepaz (Osterfestival Tirol, Austria), Martin Cloonan (University of Turku , Finland) and Peter Smidt (Eurosonic Noorderslag, The Netherlands) on September 14 from 9:45-11:15 in Joseph Haydn-Hall at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna.

Detlef Schwarte is a trained sociologist and co-founder of the Reeperbahn Festival, Europe´s largest club festival and one of the world´s most important conferences for the music and digital industries. As managing director Schwarte is responsible for the international conference of the Reeperbahn Festival that includes a programme of more than 300 sessions, networking events, showcases and award shows and hosts more than 4,700 delegates from 55 countries.

Furthermore as partner and managing director of Inferno Events, a Hamburg public events agency, he designs and implements corporate and public events such as Night of Knowledge, Hamburg Night of Theatre or German Unification Day 2008.

Schwarte attends international conferences year round and speaks regularly on panels, e.g. at Eurosonic Noorderslag (NL), Canadian Music Week (CA), Oya Festival (NOR) or BIME (ES).