Call-for-papers: 11th Vienna Music Business Research Days, September 21-23, 2020

Guy Morrow
Dec 10, 2019
3 min read

About

The 11 ^th Vienna Music Business Research Days will be held at mdw – University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, Austria, from September 21 to 23, 2020.

Music Business Research is an inter-discipline at the intersection of economic, artistic, cultural, social, legal, technological and further developments which contribute to the creation/production, dissemination/ distribution and reception/consumption of music. This interdisciplinary nature calls for methodological multiplicity and is open to scholars from all scientific areas.

The conference organizers invite scholars (from the postdoctoral level on) who have a research focus on music business/industry related topics to submit a paper proposal for the conference day on September 22, 2020.

Scholarly submissions on this year’s conference topic “Emerging Music Markets” are equally welcome as on other aspects of music business research.

Indicative themes include but are not limited to:

Past, current and future developments in the music industry (recorded / live / publishing / retailing / wholesaling, etc.)
Economic and historic analyses of music markets, charts or audiences
Issues in marketing and/or branding music, musicians or music institutions
Aspects of musical and musician diversity in music business
Critical discourses on the economic, social and cultural contributions of (live) music
New products, formats and business models in the music sectors
Strategies and strategizing of musicians and music institutions
Situatedness and power in musician labor markets
Agency and social practices in the music business
Legal issues in the music business (contracts, copyright, policies) from an international perspective
Fit for the market? Acquiring skills for the music business
Doing things right! New solutions for fairness and transparency in the music business
Entrepreneurial musician und music entrepreneurs
An age of disruption? Technological developments in the music industry

Submission

Please send an abstract of your proposal to vmbrd@mdw.ac.at no later than May 31, 2020.

All submissions must include a title, authors (names, affiliations, e-mails of all authors and a notation (*) of the corresponding author), an abstract of 1,000-1,500 words and 3-5 keywords. Abstracts must be submitted in English, as a MS Word file (*.doc or *.docx) or *.pdf file, and include:

Objectives of the research
Brief description of the disciplinary/theoretical context/background
Research questions and/or hypotheses
Methodology
Main or expected conclusions / contribution
Main references

Abstracts will be subject to a double-blind peer-review process by an international jury, and authors will be notified of acceptance by July 1, 2020.

Final papers should be sent before August 31, 2020. They should not exceed 7,000 words (including abstracts, figures, tables, references and appendices) and follow the author guidelines of the International Journal of Music Business Research (IJMBR). You may also want to consider publication in IJMBR after the conference.

Important dates

May 31, 2020 Abstract submission deadline

July 1, 2020 Notification of acceptance

August 31, 2020 Submission deadline for full papers

September 22, 2020 Conference day (paper sessions)

September 23, 2020 Conference day for invited speakers on “Emerging Music Markets”

For students at all levels of the MA & PhD a doctoral colloquium (Young Scholars’ Workshop) will be held as part of the 11^th Vienna Music Business Research Days on September 21, 2020. Find a separate call for papers here.

Registration Fee

Registration will be open from May 4, 2020. The registration fee includes conference attendance, coffee breaks and lunch on conference days as well as the Heurigen-Dinner on September 23, 2020. Please note that there will be no refund after September 6^th.