Music & the Entertainment Economy

Now that Richard Florida has posted on the rising popularity of Nashville with musicians and Dan has investigated Richard’s claim that Nashville is diversifying beyond country music, it seems like a good time to share a peek at some more of our research in progress. We’ve built a North American dataset that pulls together the [...]

One of the big topics we’re interested in around here concerns the impact of technological change on how music is created, produced, distributed, discovered, and experienced.  In this post, I want to explore some ideas about that last issue — the way music is consumed and used. I also want to follow up on an [...]

As part of the research program he leads on innovation and creative industries, MPI affiliate Ajay Agrawal recently presented an evening of lecture and music called Markets Making Music. It centred on a company based on the premise that “the only music you can’t download for free is the music that hasn’t been made yet”. [...]

One of favourite blogs, hypebot (“music. technology. the new music business.”), is running a series of posts in response to Richard’s mini-essay Why Music Matters. We’ll link to them here as they’re published: Part 1: Music & The Creative Class: A Fruit Fly Industry Part 2: How Music Can Transform America’s Cities Part 3: Why [...]

A new paper on the importance of music to Halifax from the Innovation Systems Research Network: The Halifax Sound: Live Music and the Economic Development of Halifax by Jill Grant, Jeff Haggett, and Jesse Morton While the study findings confirm the importance of job creation in providing opportunities for talented young people to choose to [...]