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From Glyndebourne to Glastonbury: The Impact of British Music Festivals – Emma Webster and George McKay
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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.
From Glyndebourne to Glastonbury: The Impact of British Music Festivals – Emma Webster and George McKay (2016)
The Pleasures of Amateur Music-Making – Catherine Tackley
Investigating ‘Impact’ – Stephen Henderson – first published May 2012
The audacity of Low: What does a band ‘owe’ us when we pay to see them perform? – Andrea Swensson
The Landscape of Music Festivals in Australia – Breda McCarthy (2013)
Engineering great moments: The production of live music – Robert Cluley (2009)
Is live the future of music? – Will Page (2007)
Is the price of recorded music heading towards zero? – Will Page (2006)
The paper offers a framework to help understand the economics behind the commonly held observation that the price of recorded music is ‘heading towards zero’. This economic approach helps show us how recorded music has long lost any notion of being a ‘pure private good’ and now risks becoming a ‘pure public good’.