The VIENNA MUSIC BUSINESS RESEARCH DAYS want to gather scholars from all disciplines and interested music business professionals in order to present their findings and exchange ideas on music business and research. The ninth edition of the VIENNA MUSIC BUSINESS RESEARCH DAYS, taking place from September 12 to 14 2018 at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, will focus on the topic “Music Life Is Live”.
Programme: VIENNA MUSIC BUSINESS RESEARCH DAYS, Sept 12-14
Sep. 12th, 2018, 09:00-17:30: Young Scholars’ Workshop
VENUE: Large Conference Room at the Department of Cultural Management and Gender Studies (IKM), University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, Anton-von-Webern-Platz 1, 1030 Vienna, Austria.
DETAILS –> see here
Sep. 13th, 2018, 09:00-18:00: Conference Track Day
VENUE: Joseph Haydn Hall and Large Conference Room at the Department of Cultural Management and Gender Studies (IKM), University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, Anton-von-Webern-Platz 1, 1030 Vienna, Austria.
DETAILS and ACCEPTED PAPERS –> see here
Sep. 14th, 2018, 09:00-17:30: Invited Conference Day
Taking place at the Joseph Haydn Hall and the Large Conference Room at the Department of Cultural Management and Gender Studies (IKM) the third day of the VIENNA MUSIC BUSINESS RESEARCH DAYS will look at political economics of music festivals and the international concert and touring business in two Panel discussions. Combined with keynotes by intenational music professionals, the third confernce day will once again gather reputable members of music business.
TIMETABLE:
09:00-09:15: WELCOME
09:15-09:45: Keynote by Beate Flath (University of Paderborn, Germany): “The Political Economics of Music Festivals”
09:45-11:15: Panel discussion ”The Political Economics of Music Festivals”
The discussion opens with a short presentation on “Music Festival Conferences as Live Incubators of the Music Industry” by Detlef Schwarte (Reeperbahn Festival Hamburg, Germany) & Carsten Winter (Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media, Germany).
The intertational board of Speakers at the Panel are 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) and moderated by Beate Flath
11:15-11:45: REFRESHMENTS
11:45-12:30: A Keynote by Erik Hitters (Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands): “Live Music Ecologies and Value Creation for Musicians, Industries and Cities”
12:30-14:00: LUNCH BREAK
14:00-14:45: A Keynote by Berthold Seliger (Konzertagentur Seliger Berlin, Germany): “Empire business or cultural diversity. About the reality of the concert business”
14:45-15:00: SHORT BREAK
15:00-15:45: A Keynote by Alan Krueger (Princeton University, USA): “The Economics of the International Live Music Business”
15:45-16:15: REFRESHMENTS
16:15-17:30: Panel discussion “The International Concert and Touring Business”
With: Jake Beaumont-Nesbitt (International Music Managers Forum, London, UK), Peter Jenner (Sincere Music, London, UK), and Fra Soler (Primavera Festival, Spain, invited)
Moderated by Berthold Seliger (Konzertagentur Seliger, Berlin, Germany)
17:30: Awarding the young scholars’ workshop best paper
20:00: Conference Heuriger (for invited guests)
Registration Fee & Contact
The registration fee includes conference attendance, reception, coffee breaks and lunch on conference days as well as the Heurigen-Dinner on September 14, 2018.Registration fee: 225,- Euro
End of registration (no refund after this date): August 31, 2018
Get your ticket: here.
Contact
Dagmar Abfalter (mailto: vmbrdays@gmail.com)
Department of Cultural Management and Gender Studies (IKM)
University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna
Anton-von-Webern-Platz 1, 1030 Vienna, Austria
Tel.: +43-1-71155-3418 / Fax: +43-1-71155-3499
Vienna Music Business Research Days
The Vienna Music Business Research Days want to bring together scholars from all disciplines and interested music business professionals in Vienna every year in order to present their findings and exchange ideas about it. Music business research is a new scientific approach at the intersection of economic, artistic, especially musical, cultural, social, legal, technological developments that aims at a better understanding of the creation/production, dissemination/distribution and reception/consumption of the cultural good music. It follows an inter-disciplinary research and teaching approach that is characterized by methodological diversity.