A new report, written by Emma Webster and George McKay and published online last week, highlights the impact of British music festivals and shows that festivals are now at the heart of the British music industry, forming an essential part of the worlds of rock, classical, folk and jazz. Funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council’s (AHRC) Connected Communities programme, the report is based on a critical literature review of more than 170 books, papers and reports.
Monthly Archives: May 2016
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Live Concert Performance: An Ecological Approach – Adam Behr, Matt Brennan, Martin Cloonan, Simon Frith & Emma Webster (2016)
From Glyndebourne to Glastonbury: The Impact of British Music Festivals – Emma Webster and George McKay (2016)
Alien invasions: the British Musicians’ Union and foreign musicians – Martin Cloonan and Matt Brennan (2013)
Live music as ideology – Martin Cloonan (2013)
Selling the experience: The worldviews of British concert promoters – Martin Cloonan (2012)
Based on a series of interviews conducted between 2008 and 2011 with UK-based concert promoters, this article seeks to examine the world-views of a group of individuals whose activities are currently economically dominant within the broader music industries but have hitherto largely escaped academic attention.