Music 2025 and Music IP
Posted: February 2nd, 2025 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on Music 2025 and Music IP16th International Music Business Research Days
Young Scholars’ Workshop
University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, Herts, UK
For students at all levels of the MA or PhD programmes, a doctoral colloquium – the Young Scholars’ Workshop (YSW) – will be held as part of the 16th International Music Business Research Days (IMBRD) on Wednesday June 11th, 2025.
Proposals for papers that explore questions that help us to better understand economic and management issues in the music business are welcome, as are papers concerning the processes of the entire music business sector and the music management field. There are many questions in music business research that call for investigation and discussion, for example:
- What drives innovation in the music business sector?
- How can we scientifically understand and differentiate music business models?
- What do we know about critical success factors? Have success factors changed over time – and has music business entrepreneurship changed in general?
- What rationalities affect this very “personal” industry?
- What does it mean to be self-managed in the music business?
- What can we learn about the customer’s willingness to pay for music recordings or related goods?
- Who will control the future music market, e.g., startups or Apple?
- How can we understand the role of brands and the music industry?
- How can music business research support efforts for innovative business models?
- What issues of gender, class or race exist in a music business context? How are these issues dealt with?
- What are the current issues relating to Music IP rights, including AI, creator contracts or changes in creator remuneration?
- What are the issues relating to cultural appropriation?
This list of research questions is not exhaustive, and papers may also address other aspects of music business research.
The workshop organisers Prof. Dr. Peter Tschmuck (University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna) and Prof. Dr. Carsten Winter (Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media) strongly encourage submissions from students at the levels of MA & PhD. Students are expected to present on their MA or PhD thesis research and will have the opportunity to discuss it with senior researchers within the field of music business research.
Abstracts (approx. 1,000 characters) are due by March 17th, 2025, and full papers (15-30 pages) are due by May 19th, 2025. Only abstracts and papers submitted on time will be considered.
A maximum of 6-8 papers will be selected for presentation to guarantee a workshop atmosphere. The sessions will combine paper presentations and discussions including interactive elements.
Please email your submission to [email protected]
Paper proposals and final papers must be submitted as pdf documents and should include contact information, University affiliation, e-mail address, telephone number and postal address of the author(s).
International Music Business Research Association