VMBRD-10: Vienna Music Business Research Days Vienna, Austria, September 11-13, 2019 |
Conference website | http://musicbusinessresearch.wordpress.com/vienna-music-business-research-days-2/ |
Abstract registration deadline | April 29, 2019 |
Notification of acceptance | May 20, 2019 |
Submission deadline | July 31, 2019 |
The 10th Vienna Music Business Research Days will be held at mdw – University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, Austria, from September 11 to 13, 2019.
Music Business Research is an inter-discipline 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. This interdisciplinary nature calls for methodological multiplicity and is open to scholars from all scientific areas.
Submission Guidelines
Please send an abstract of your proposal to vmbrdays@gmail.com no later than April 29, 2019.
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 20, 2019.
Final papers should be sent before July 31, 2019. They 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). You may also want to consider publication in IJMBR after the conference.
List of Topics
Scholarly submissions on this year’s conference theme “The Future of Music Business” are equally welcome as on other aspects of music business research.
Indicative themes include but are not limited to:
- Past, current and future developments in the music industry (recorded / live / publishing / retailing / wholesaling, etc.)
- Economic and historic analyses of music markets, charts or audiences
- Issues in marketing and/or branding music, musicians or music institutions
- Aspects of musical and musician diversity in music business
- Critical discourses on the economic, social and cultural contributions of (live) music
- New products, formats and business models in the music sectors
- Strategies and strategizing of musicians and music institutions
- Situatedness and power in musician labor markets
- Agency and social practices in the music business
- Legal issues in the music business (contracts, copyright, policies) from an international perspective
- Fit for the market? Acquiring skills for the music business
- Doing things right! New solutions for fairness and transparency in the music business
- Entrepreneurial musician und music entrepreneurs
- An age of disruption? Technological developments in the music industry
Contact
Dagmar Abfalter (mailto: vmbrdays@gmail.com)
Department of Cultural Management and Gender Studies (IKM)
mdw – University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna
Anton-von-Webern-Platz 1, 1030 Vienna, Austria
http://musicbusinessresearch.wordpress.com/vienna-music-business-research-days-2/