Hracs BJ Cultural intermediaries in the digital age: the case of independent musicians and
managers in Toronto, Regional Studies. This paper explores the limitations of the …

“Musicians often pay a high price for sharing their art with us. Underneath the glow of
success can often lie loneliness and exhaustion, not to mention the basic struggles of paying …

This book challenges the new urban growth concepts of the creative class and creative
industries from a critical urban theory perspective. Critiques Richard Florida's popular books …

This paper nuances our understanding of the ongoing transition within the North American
music industry. It extends the existing analysis of the so‐called “MP 3 Crisis” by exploring the …

This article discusses a range of significant issues for consideration by music higher
education institutions when preparing their students for a portfolio career in music. Drawing …

The Internet through the world-wide-web has well and truly opened 'Pandora's Box'as far as
the record industry is concerned, and there is no going back. The extensive use of illegal file …

The proliferation of computers, tablets, and smartphones has resulted in digital audio
workstations (DAWs) such as GarageBand in being some of the most widely distributed …

Recording studios are the most insulated, intimate and privileged sites of music production
and creativity. Yet in a world of intensified globalisation, they are also sites which are highly …

Independent music production, often viewed as a niche-driven and genre-specific practice
restricted to isolated and fragmented communities lacking financial and technological …

Geographers have studied the complex relationships between cultural production,
consumption, and space for some time, but the marketplace for cultural products is being …