“Music Life Is Live” is the main topic of the 9th 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).
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