Music & the Entertainment Economy

As traditional recorded music sales continue to fall, it’s interesting to watch the talent and entrepreneurial mindset that musicians apply to the collaborations that are increasingly important to their making a living. Brian Hracs is doing some great research on this. Perennial metal also-rans Anvil are a great example. The recent documentary about their epic [...]

By Allan Watson, Michael Hoyler, and Christoph Mager in March’s issue of Geography Compass: Abstract Urban geography, both material and imagined, is a crucial mediating factor in the production and consumption of music. The city provides the concrete places which offer spaces for musical creativity. While certain spaces such as recording studios are specifically organised [...]

That’s Entertainment: Scale and Scope Economies in the Location and Clustering of the Entertainment Economy by Richard Florida, Charlotta Mellander and Kevin Stolarick Abstract It is argued that the introduction of new technology is leading toward the decentralization of the production and consumption of creative products and industries. But creative industries and workers may benefit [...]