Richard has a new post pointing to Robert Austin and Lee Devin’s paper on why artists deserve to earn a living at their craft. Harvard Business prof Austin has also done work on the extraordinary management skills of Miles Davis and studied the factors behind the Medici String Quartet’s excellence in creative collaboration.
June 25, 2009
Industry vs. Scene Dynamics
I want to return to some of the issues that came up in my previous post about genre diversity in Nashville, or the lack thereof. That post, and the subsequent discussion, focused on the relatively narrow question about whether Richard Florida’s claim about Nashville becoming a world leader in music industry concentration has correlated to [...]
June 24, 2009
New data released on state of the Canadian music industry
Statistics Canada has just released highlights from the 2007 edition of its biannual survey of the Sound Recording and Music Publishing Industry in Canada (h/t Kevin Stolarick). Industry sales are down but profit margin is up: Operating revenue for the record production and integrated record production and distribution industry fell from $712.3 million in 2006 [...]
June 23, 2009
The Great Musical North
As part of the Martin Prosperity Institute‘s ongoing effort to build combined US-Canada datasets, we compare the concentration of musicians and music firms at the national and city level. We find that Canada has a significantly higher presence of both musicians and the recording industry than the United States. We’ve created combined US-Canada datasets for [...]
June 22, 2009
From LES to LAX
Interesting piece in the NYT over the weekend on the backyard indie rock scene for rich kids in LA: “It certainly seems to be a phenomenon over the last three or four years,” said Linda Lichter, an entertainment lawyer whose two musician sons graduated from Crossroads. “I have a whole bunch of friends and clients [...]
June 18, 2009
Monday in Toronto: event on innovation and the music industry
Just came across this for those in or near Toronto. The CEO of New York music start-up Indaba will be here at MaRS on Monday for a lecture on new business models for music and media in the era of file sharing: Learn how collaborative technologies are rapidly changing how companies, brands and individuals interact [...]
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June 29, 2009
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