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15th International Music Business Research Days (2024)

Music Ecosystem Research: Challenges and Opportunities

June 5 - 7, Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media, Department of Journalism and Communication Research in Collaboration with HYPE&FRIENDS and GMM e. V.

 

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Music business research is an interdisciplinary field that puts different analytical approaches into mutual dialogue. It is located at the intersection of economic, artistic, musical, cultural, social, legal, and technological understandings of the creation, distribution, and use of music. This interdisciplinary nature calls for conceptual and methodological multiplicity and an openness to scholars from different fields.

 

The 15th International Music Business Research Days 2024 will be hosted and organized by the Department of Journalism and Communication Research, Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media. The conference theme for Thursday June 6 is ‘ecosystem thinking’. The term ecosystem presents opportunities for better understanding the complexity, dynamics and interdependence within the new digital boundlessness of the music sector and music-related sectors. A sustainable development of them will only succeed if not only the market and contractual relationships within it are understood, but personal network relationships, data and AI as well as social and ecological environments are understood and used productively in the long term. This is significant not only for the music economy and music-related sectors, but for society and the planet. The ecosystem metaphor was first developed by the Chicago School of Sociology and it is constantly being rediscovered and developed. In this context, ecosystem theories are emerging to understand possible futures of the music sector. Ecosystem thinking has become a guiding idea within cultural and creative industries debates and in particular in management and strategic thinking as well as in the field of strategic economic and political consulting.

 

Friday June 7 is the open music business conference day. We invite papers that explore a variety of different approaches, questions, and methodologies for studying the music business, including, but not limited to, the following themes and topics:

 

• Different structures of ecosystems and their openness

• Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the music business

• Digital and ecosystem transformations and the future of the music sector

• New music networks and the rise of the creator economy

• Labour conditions, work-life balance, and mental health

 

 

INTERNATIONAL MUSIC BUSINESS RESEARCH DAYS

International Music Business Research Days is an annual academic conference. The conference brings scholars from many disciplines together with music business professionals every second year in Vienna and in an international location each other year. The conference provides a platform for the presentation of the latest music business research, and a forum for debate and the exchange of ideas.

 

The field of music business studies is multidisciplinary; scholars who research the economics of the arts, musical creativity, the sociology of music, the law, culture and technology come together for this event in order to enhance our understanding  of the creation, dissemination, and reception/consumption of music.

 

YOUNG SCHOLARS WORKSHOP

The Young Scholars’ Workshop is an annual event that runs in conjunction with the International Music Business Research Days Conference. It provides international post-graduate students with an opportunity to present their research and to gain feedback from senior academics from around the world. Every second year the event is organised by Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media and the Department of Popular Music at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna.

 

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