2016-12-12

CfP: Vienna Music Business Research Days 2017

The 8th Vienna Music Business Research Days will be held at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, Austria, from September 12 to 14, 2017. This interdisciplinary conference on Unchaining the Digital Music Business calls for methodological multiplicity and is open to scholars from all scientific areas. The conference organizers invite scholars who have a research focus on music business/industry related topics to submit a paper proposal by March 31, 2017.

Music Business Research is an interdiscipline 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. Scholarly submissions on this years conference theme Unchaining the Digital Music Business or other aspects of music business research are welcome. Indicative themes, include, but not limited to:

Past, current and future developments in the music industry (recorded music industry, live music sector, music publishing, music retailing and wholesaling, music instruments industry etc.);
Music market research and music charts research;
The economic and social situation of musicians as well as the labor market for musicians;
The management of musicians and music institutions;
Gender and diversity in the music business;
The marketing of music;
Music branding and sponsoring;
Public and private funding of the music sector (including new forms of music funding such as crowdfunding);
Case studies on music companies and other music institutions;
Legal aspects of the music business (contracts, copyright, competition law/policy etc.);
Music licensing and collecting societies;
Music media (radio, TV, online-based media etc.);
Economic aspects of music genres (classical, pop/rock, jazz, world music markets etc.);
Business-related music education;
Music export;

Submission

Please send an abstract of your proposal to vmbrdays@gmail.com no later than March 31, 2017.

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 / contribution
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 May 15, 2017. Final papers 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). The best paper will be offered publication in IJMBR. Full papers have to submitted by July 31, 2017.

Call for Papers: 7th young scholars workshop

For students at all levels of the MA & PhD a doctoral colloquium (7th Young Scholars' Workshop) will be held as part of the 8th Vienna Music Business Research Days on September 12, 2017. It invites 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. There are many questions that call for investigation and need to be discussed in music business research, for example:

What drives innovation in the music business sector?
How can we scientifically understand and differentiate music business models?
What do we know about critical success factors? Have success factors changed over time and has music business (entrepreneurship) changed in general?
What rationalities affect this very personal industry?
What does it mean to be self-managed in the music business?
What can we learn about the customers willingness to pay for music recordings or related goods?
Who will control the future music market, e.g., startups or Apple?
How can we understand the role of brands and the music industry?
And how can music business research support efforts for innovative business models?
What issues of gender, class or race exist in a music business context? How are they dealt with?

These research questions are not exhaustive, papers may also address other aspects.

The workshop organizers Prof. Dr. Carsten Winter (Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media) and Prof. Dr. Peter Tschmuck (University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna) strongly encourage submissions from students that work on their MA or PhD thesis and want to discuss them with senior researchers of music business research.

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). Abstracts (of about 1,000 characters) are due by March 31, 2017, and full papers (15-30 pages) are due by July 31, 2017. 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. Please email your submission to viennamusicresearch@hmkw.de.

All information on the 8th Vienna Music Business Research Days and both call for papers can be found here.

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