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[Commlist] CFP, RSA Annual Conference 2023 | Music Industry 4.0: Technological Innovation and the Spatial Impacts of Changing Production and Consumption Practices

Thu Feb 23 21:49:17 GMT 2023





CALL FOR PAPERS | RSA Annual Conference 2023

*Music Industry 4.0 | Technological Innovation and the Spatial Impacts of Changing Production and Consumption Practices*

*Submission Deadline: 28th February 2023*

Event: RSA Annual Conference 2023 | Ljubljana, Slovenia | 14th-17th June 2023 <https://www.regionalstudies.org/events/2023rsaannualconf/>

Session: SS19: Music Industry 4.0 | Technological Innovation and the Spatial Impacts of Changing Production and Consumption Practices <https://www.regionalstudies.org/news/2023-rsa-annual-special-sessions/#!>

Submit here: Submission Portal <https://lounge.regionalstudies.org/Meetings/Meeting?ID=413>

Session Organisers: Björn ‘Bjarne’ Braunschweig (Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, Germany), Dr Allan Watson (Loughborough University, United Kingdom)

Creative actors in regional ecosystems are the basis of all value creation in a global music industry, with localised ecosystems playing a significant role in fostering the creative potential and innovative capacity of musical creators and innovators (Watson et al., 2009; Grandadam et al., 2013; Klement & Strambach, 2019). The nature of these ecosystems has however recently been subject to significant change through technological innovation, platformisation, and the increasing financialisation of the music industry.

On the one hand, this has offered musical creators and innovators the potential to reach ever wider de-territorialised audiences and revenue streams. Recent developments of the so called ‘web3’ and the market mechanics of a platform political economy (Langley & Leyshon 2021), including the emergence of an innovation ecosystem of MusicTech firms (Watson & Leyshon, 2022), offer the potential for new forms of extra-regional collaboration and open social and technological innovation (Watson, 2020).

Yet, on the other hand, music creators and innovators are required to navigate a new economic landscape characterised by both a growing number of competitors, a heavily saturated market for music, and emerging platforms and algorithms which increasingly define the terms on which creatives and innovators can make a sustainable living with the music industry (Watson et al., 2022). Furthermore, through the advancing convergence of the music industry with the tech and finance industries (Keenan et al., 2022; Watson & Leyshon, 2022), it is becoming apparent that global components of the music industry are also penetrating in new ways into the regional level.

But what exactly is the relationship between the local, regional, and global scales in a music industry 4.0? What are the pressing issues that need to be addressed in the context of economic, cultural, and technological development? What are the roles of regional ecosystems and their actors in a music industry that ever more shifts towards web3, streaming and platforms? This session aims to meet these questions with a diverse selection of contributions. Young researchers and those working in geographical contexts beyond the global West are in particular encouraged to submit papers, and we also welcome papers with predominantly empirical content. We invite paper presentations which focus on, but are not limited to, the following topics:

Changing practices of work, labour and innovation in the context of music industry 4.0

  * Spatial differentiation of musical production and innovation practices
  * The (future) role of co-presence for collaboration, including
    empirical studies of transnational collaborations
  * The emergence of localised open innovation systems
  * MusicTech, start-ups and entrepreneurship
  * Convergence of music industry 4.0, BigTech and the financial industries
  * The sustainability of music careers in regional music economies
  * Possible integrations of web3 and regional value creation

Changing modes and spatialities of creativity, performance and consumption in the context of the music industry 4.0

  * Possible (future) sources of revenue and the spatial differences in
    access to these
  * Access to platforms for distribution and consumption, especially
    beyond the global West
  * Fragmentation of the industry through regionally divergent platforms
  * Regional differentiations in consumption and differences in
    regional/national listening habits
  * Integration of digital and analog live performances
    (regional/national/global)
  * The (future) role of live-venues, practice spaces and recording
    studios in a music industry 4.0
  * The (future) role of co-presence in the context of live performances


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