Introducing our guests: Carsten Winter (Hanover Universiy of Music, Drama and Media)

“Music Life Is Live” is the main topic of the 9^th Vienna Music Business Research Days from Sep. 12-14, 2018. In presentations and discussions music business representatives and music business researchers focus this time on the political economy of music festivals and the economics of the international concert and touring business. Find the program here.

Carsten Winter gives a short presentation with Detlef Schwarte on “Music Festival Conferences as Live Incubators of the Music Industry” within the panel discussion “The Political Economics of Music Festivals” with Hannah Crepaz (Osterfestival Tirol, Austria), Martin Cloonan (University of Turku , Finland) and Peter Smidt (Eurosonic Noorderslag, The Netherlands) on September 14 from 9:45-11:15 in Joseph Haydn-Hall at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna.

Carsten Winter is Full Professor of Media and Music Management at the Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media (Germany). He researches media and culture histories, transformations and conjunctures, (strategic) media and music management, music networks and cities. His more than twenty books include Cultural Studies (with R. Bromley and U. Göttlich, 1999), Die Cultural Studies Kontroverse (with A. Hepp, The Cultural Studies controversy, 2003), Konvergenz und Medienwirtschaft (with M. Karmasin – Convergence and Media Economy, 2006), Connectivity, Network and Flows. Conceptualizing Contemporary Communications (with A. Hepp, F. Krotz and Sh. Moores, 2008). Carsten Winter is Dean of Students for all scientific programs (incl. Phd-Programs) of the Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media, Director of the MA Program “Media and Music”, one of the editors of theInternational Journal of Music Business Research (IJMBR), and elected Board Member of the International Music Business Research Association (IMBRA).

Find an abstract of the short presentation here.