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

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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