A blog post about Chinese ticket touts, known as ‘huangniu’ or yellow cows, and the reasons why concert tickets in China are selling through the roof.
‘Where did the tickets go?’ Ticket touting in China – Zhang Wenzhao
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Category Archives: Blog
Sydney’s Music Venues: Down but not out Down Under – Martin Cloonan
From Glyndebourne to Glastonbury: The Impact of British Music Festivals – Emma Webster and George McKay
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.
The found musicians: The regeneration of the union of musicians in Galicia? – Zósimo López
Live Music in the Online Age: Findings from the research project Clouds and Concerts – Anne Danielsen
Bye bye nightclubs in the Big Stay-At-Home Society? – Emma Webster
This week’s blog post is by Live Music Exchange’s own Emma Webster, in response to The Times‘ leader about the removal of nightclubs from the ONS ‘basket of goods’ in March 2016. The post draws attention to The Times’ seeming horror at the inefficiency of the process, a latent hatred of nightclubs, an implicit fear of gathering crowds, and the delight in the pursuit of individual rather than group pleasure. The piece offers a defence of nightclubs from an economic and social perspective, and questions the real motives behind the glee of the author in chronicling the demise of the nightclub sector.
The Beatles revolutionised music by putting the record centre-stage – Adam Behr
As a new show covering Beatles recording sessions at Abbey Road premiers at the Royal Albert Hall, Live Music Exchange’s Adam Behr writes in The Conversation today about talking to the show’s producer, how the Beatles changed the status of the record in popular music, and the challenges of depicting that process on stage.
The Ecology of Live Music: the evolution of an idea – Live Music Exchange editorial team
To mark the publication of our academic article on the live music ecology, the LMX team is publishing our original discussion notes. These illustrate the origins of the ideas that inform the article but include points that weren’t further developed (and perhaps should have been). We thought it worth making public—particularly in relation to this topic—an aspect of the academic process that is usually hidden.